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.

Comments

[szeretni.livejournal.com]

Yeah? Interesting. I know basically nothing about Taoism myself, so if you'd like to explain more, I'd be interested to listen. :)

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[jennywren102.livejournal.com]

I used to have several really great links to sites with short, comprehensive overviews. Those sites seem to be gone, much to my dismay. I don't trust myself to discuss Taoism, since I don't really research it and I don't *really* practice it. It's just the only thing you can put a recognizable name to which most closely resembles my system of belief. If that makes any sense. So I started searching the web for decent sites to recommend and got pretty frustrated at all the long-winded, confusing diatribes which spent too much time focusing on the piddly minutae which differentiate one sect from another. Go figure. Wish I could be of more help. :/