School of Psychological Sciences,University of Melbourne,Parkville,VIC 3010,
Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan;41:e75. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17002060.
Singh proposes that shamans violate notions of humanness in patterned ways that signal supernatural capacities. I argue that his account, based on a notion of humanness that contrasts humans with non-human animals, does not capture people's understandings of supernatural beings. Shamanic behavior may simply violate human norms in unstructured, improvised ways rather than contrast with a coherent concept of humanness.
辛格认为，萨满以有规律的方式违反人类观念，从而显示出超自然能力。我认为，他的说法基于一种将人类与非人类动物相对立的人类观念，无法捕捉到人们对超自然存在的理解。萨满行为可能只是以非结构化、即兴的方式违反人类规范，而不是与连贯的人类观念形成对比。
