| Abstract: |
The purpose of this article is to describe a methodological adventure in the use of the survey technique to investigate shamanism. At the outset I must state my belief that the anthropologist should use structured techniques, if at all, only after he has used unstructured ones. Structured data-gathering is a valuable supplement to, but never a substitute for, unstructured interviewing and observing. This article describes the use of a structured technique as a supplementary means of understanding shamanism, an area which, to my knowledge, has heretofore been studied only by unstructured techniques.
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