An Essay on Shamanism

The abridged English edition of this essay is now published in two parts:

• I.  An Outline of Shamanism: Ecstasy, Possession, and the Seat of Authority — the review and the instrument (Article 13-I, PDF, 14 pp.)
• II.  The Two Shaman-Queens of Early Japan: Himiko’s Kidō and the Oracle of Empress Jingū — the case studies (Article 13-II, PDF, 19 pp.)

The complete argument remains the Japanese original, eleventh revised edition: シャーマニズム論考（完全版・38頁）. Citations of the former single-volume edition (Article 13, pp. 1–17) should be referred to the two papers above.