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Article: A female shaman's mind and body, and possession.
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- Asian Folklore Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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YANAGITA KUNIO can possibly be considered the first Japanese scholar to try his hand at the study of female shamans. * In Fujoko [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.], a work he wrote from 1913 to 1914 (1990) he identified two kinds of female shamans: "shrine shamans" (jinja miko [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]) who dress in a white kimono and red hakama, dance while holding round bells, and take part in the yudate [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. ritual; and "kuchiyose shamans" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] who call the spirits of the dead as well as of living people and allow them to speak. With the exception of his allocating shamans to these two categories, both ...