Really need white anthopologists, archaeologists, and historians to stop referring to religious people in W. Europe as 'shamans'. Stop using Indigenous terminology like that. It's irresponsible and inaccurate.
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Did prehistoric peoples have holy men and women that may have worn masks or had elements of animal symbolism in their ritual practices? Maybe? The closest we can get to this would be, say, "druids" but again lots of issues there.
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Did the Picts have druids? They may well have, or they had a comparable group of religious people with a different name. There are plenty of issues with the term but it's preferable to 'shaman'.
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My feelings on "shaman" are the same as my feelings on "tribe". Problematic terms that were baked into the racist, colonialist underpinnings of anthro/arky that still get used uncritically in the West by white scholars.
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Indigenous peoples get to decide how and when they can use these terms, if they want to reclaim them or not. That is not a debate that settlers need to step into. We can however STOP using these terms in our own work.
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As I said: inaccurate, imprecise, problematic.
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