Priest of the Devil
Mike Jay: On Shamanism, 11 September 2025
Shamanism: The Timeless Religion
by Manvir Singh.
Allen Lane, 304 pp., £25, May,978 0 241 63841 5 Show More
by Manvir Singh.
Allen Lane, 304 pp., £25, May,
“... tradition of shamans: individuals known as sikerei heal people by communing with spirits. Manvir Singh, in the middle of his doctoral research in human evolutionary biology, went there in 2014 to undertake fieldwork. Sikerei were easy to spot, with their long hair, loincloths, strings of beads and spidery tattoos, which traced patterns and broken ... ”