Antagonistic Discourses on shamanic folklore in modern China
Antagonistic Discourses on shamanic folklore in modern China

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyse from a socio-political perspective a series of distinct anthropological visions regarding folklore studies in modern China. The shamanic practices have been undergoing a flabbergasting process of revival inside contemporary China, therefore academic studies on the topic in both China and the Western world flourished accordingly. Most of the academic studies tend to analyse this amazing Sino-shamanic boom from a post-colonial perspective, thus putting a lot of emphasis on cultural specificity and difference, meant to enrich and add more diversity to the global spectrum of schamanic and folklore studies, as it is the case with the western scholarship;

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