Study suggests shamans acted as the first professional class in human society
A paper published earlier this year argues that shamanism develops as specialists compete to provide magical services to people in their communities, and the outcome is a set of traditions that hacks people’s psychological biases to convince them that they can control the uncertain.
Peter Reuell
• harvard
Dec. 10, 2018 • ~7 min
Dec. 10, 2018 • ~7 min
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