"It can be argued that the shaman is actually the repressed self of the society, articulating some possibilities latent in a culture, possibilities which the ‘sane’, the ‘mature’ and the ‘rational’ cannot self-consciously express or seriously pursue."
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Ashis Nandy. (1989). Shamans, Savages and the Wilderness: On the Audibility of Dissent and the Future of civilizations. Alternatives, XIV, p. 266.
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