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Shaman women in Korea

An exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. A phenomenon that is particularly difficult to access for westerners is shamanism, which we usually only assume to exist in Siberia. Occasionally, Native American medicine men, perhaps even African sorcerers are associated with it, and we tend to dismiss shamanism as a form of expression of "primitive" cultures. It is all the more surprising that this archaic [...]