Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology,Oxford University,Oxford OX2 6PE,United
Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan;41:e89. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17002205.
A complete picture of shamanism's cultural evolution requires an understanding of how the professionalization of shamanism affects the distribution of knowledge within societies. We suggest that limiting knowledge to fewer people could impede the accumulation of functional knowledge within shamanism. On this basis, we make further predictions about how the domain of shamanism could change and collapse.
萨满教文化演变的全貌需要了解萨满教的专业化如何影响社会内部知识的分布。我们认为，将知识局限于少数人可能会阻碍萨满教内部功能性知识的积累。在此基础上，我们对萨满教领域可能发生的变化和崩溃做出了进一步的预测。
