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The Shaman or Chinese Wu: His inspired dancing and versatile character

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

L. C. Hopkins
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The Shaman or Wizard of the proto-historic Orient, his vocation, his reputation, his strange psychosis, his claim to thaumaturgic powers, and his place in the social structure of his community, are not all these written in the chronicles of the. Works of de Groot and Shirokogaroff ?

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 77 , Issue 1-2 , April 1945 , pp. 3 - 16
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1945

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References

page 6 note 1 The Chinese Classics, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 339–340.

page 9 note 1 Chün ku lu chin wên, ch. 3, part 1, p. 33.

page 10 note 1 The Eumorfopoulos Collection vol. 1, p. 27.

page 10 note 2 T'ien jang ko chia ku wên ts'un k'ao shih, p. 38.

page 16 note 1 See Lo Chên-yü's Yin Hsü Shu Ch'i Ch'ien Hua, Plates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.