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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
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... 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 ...

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