tacochemic

I hope this question isn't too vague but as a researcher, I'm sure you have come across Mircea Eliade's work on Shamanism. If you are indeed familiar with it, do you think that he got it mostly right, or are there some key differences that you have noticed first hand that Eliade may have misapplied or simply gotten wrong?

You've mentioned several times so far about their trance state. I know that it can vary, but with Mongolians did they explicitly utilize drumming (I'm making the assumption based your great pictures) or did they achieve their trance or altered state of consciousness through other means as well?

Thanks for doing this AMA by the way!

Thanks for the reply! To me, it is 'strange' to think that something like shamanic practice, that is naturally thought of as having ancient roots, is still in practice. I guess that the amaan huur was an evolved process to accommodate the changing world around the Mongolian Shamans.