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The Dissenter · 2025-05-19 · 64 min · 9,727 words

#1099 Manvir Singh - Shamanism: The Timeless Religion

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Manvir Singh. This is our third time together. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

I will be leaving links to our first two interviews in the description, and we're going to talk today about his A book, Shamanism, The Timeless Religion. So Dr. Sing, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Ricardo. Always always a pleasure to be on. So let's start perhaps with the most basic question here. What is shamanism? Yeah, so it's a basic question.

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