{"id":133,"date":"2004-03-02T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2004-03-02T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T23:00:00","slug":"133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Estonian shamanism site<\/strong><\/p>\n

With thanks to the dashing Odious and Peculiar<\/a>, a link to a site on Estonian shamanism<\/a> created by Aado Lintrop. Most of the links are in English, some in Estonian. <\/p>\n

But Lintrop links to the dreaded Michael Harner’s site<\/a>. Quick, call the Culture Police! (No, not them<\/em><\/a>; I mean the ones that you might find down the corridor in the anthropology department.) Arrest him for felonious cultural appropriation and misdemeanor neoshamanism!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Estonian shamanism site With thanks to the dashing Odious and Peculiar, a link to a site on Estonian shamanism created by Aado Lintrop. Most of the links are in English, some in Estonian. But Lintrop links to the dreaded Michael Harner’s site. Quick, call the Culture Police! 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