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Article: Iban Shamanism: An Analysis of the Ethnographic Literature.
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- June 1, 1995
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By P. Grahame. An Occasional Paper. Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1994. (1987). Pp. x + 174. Price $A20.00
Published in 1987, Grahame's Iban Shamanism has undergone its first reprinting. Its availability now is particularly appreciated as it brings attention to a region of Southeast Asia that in recent years has received limited consideration. Based entirely on secondary sources, Grahame's synthesis brings clarity and coherence to a collection of largely ahistorical accounts that span over a century of socio-cultural change in Sarawak.
The book takes the form of five chapters ...