Help?

[gategrrl]

I need to research shamanism in North America in particular, and Asia secondarily. Does anyone on my flist know of any decent nonfiction books that don't twist it for modern New Age American sensibilities? That's all I seem to be finding at the moment.

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BTW about shamanism in Sweden, I've been reading some books just this month about the old native (or what the word would be) culture that we have in the north of Sweden.

Basically, it's a culture that probably travelled from Siberia or Russia via Finland, ages ago... They're called Sami, so you might be able to Google that.

They got treated pretty badly by Swedish authoritites and Christian priests over the years but I think they've started to revive a lot of different practices the last years.
Since Sweden is a very secular and non-religious country, it's kinda difficult to say that you believe in anything that can't be proven.
So it's not something you talk about publically, but that goes for all religions or spiritual beliefs. ;)