Journal article
Shamanism and efficacious exceptionalism
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.41, pp.e69-e69
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110436
PMID: 31064455
Abstract
Shamans can have efficacy at healing through botanical remedies and in observational and advisory functions through cognitive strengths, while shamanic acts of strangeness are likely honest signals of these qualities. Given this potential for shamanic practices to have true efficacy and the capacity for honest signaling, we expect efficacy will influence the spread, persistence, and loss of shamanic practices.
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- Title
- Shamanism and efficacious exceptionalism
- Creators
- Aaron D Blackwell - aDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. blackwell@anth.ucsb.edu www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/blackwellBenjamin Grant Purzycki - bDepartment of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. benjamin_purzycki@eva.mpg.de https://bgpurzycki.wordpress.com/
- Publication Details
- The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.41, pp.e69-e69
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- Number of pages
- 2
- Identifiers
- 99900547136501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article