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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I'm sure that there are similarities in practice. But can it be called shamanism, when the term is very specifically tied to Siberian Indigenous groups, and that the term itself may be rooted in a colonial practice? Unless the pre-Christian Hungarians were using "shaman" 1/2
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or a derived term from the Evenki in Siberia then I will reiterate once again that imprecise and inaccurate language does not help anyone.
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So the Hungarians are linguistically tied to the Evenki people in Siberia and thus used the word? Because it is also worth noting that "shaman" is a word several times removed from Evenki too, and Indigenous peoples have said we should move past it entirely.
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Hungarians may have originated in western Siberia, but that doesn't make them Evenki or make the term "shaman" more applicable or useful. Their language isn't linked to the Evenki language, which is from Eastern Siberia.
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I am highly suspect of ethnographic works from non-Indigenous people, especially if its old. And I think it's worth interrogating why we'd hold up someone like that over Indigenous people saying that we need to stop using the word full stop.
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