The AWFUL History of Shamanism - A story of Colonization, Exploitation and Cultural Appropriation

This weeks video is a very important one. I'm going over the awful history of the terms shamanism and shaman - a story full of colonization, exploitation and cultural appropriation.

Resources:
Das Rätsel der Schamanin - Harald Meller & Kai Michel
Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination - Ronald Hutton
The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and the Western Imagination - Andrei A. Znamenski
Shamanism in Siberia: Russian Records of Indigenous Spirituality - Andrei A. Znamenski
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians Hardcover - W. Bruce Lincoln
Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances: New Age Commercialization of Native American Spirituality - Lisa Aldred
The Rise of the White Shaman as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism - Gary Hobson

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00:00 - Intro
03:38 - The first image of the shaman as a priest of the devil
10:18 - Russias Colonization of Siberia
12:45 - Exploitation during the Enlightenment
14:47 - Enemy of the working class during the Soviet Union
17:43 - A fetishised, culturally devoid new form of shamanism
28:12 - A summary
30:57 - Where do we go from here?