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The Shaman and the Heresiarch: A New Interpretation of the Li sao
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“Wu had superhuman abilities that permitted them to communicate with the gods and other spirits who they queried with divinatory procedures and addressed with rituals to assure the well-being of the king and state.”
From An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past (2022) · cites this paper as Sukhu 2012
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“The wu appealed to deities through sacrifices and prayers, especially petitioning control of the rains so important for agricultural abundance.”
From An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past (2022) · cites this paper as Sukhu 2012
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“Wu were predominantly females, with almost all wu referred to in the literature being women.”
From An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past (2022) · cites this paper as Sukhu 2012
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Chinese Wu, Ritualists and Shamans: An Ethnological Analysis
Winkelman, M. (2023) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel14070852 · Cited by 28
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past
Winkelman, M. J. (2022) · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · doi:10.1007/s10816-021-09523-9 · Cited by 24
“Cai (2014) and Sukhu (2012) characterize the various functions of the wu paraphrased below to illustrate their features.”
BackgroundShamanism Theory and the Early Chinese Wu
Michael, T. (2015) · Journal of the American Academy of Religion · doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfv034 · Cited by 18
Sheng, P., Zhou, H., Liu, J., & Jiang, H. (2020) · Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · doi:10.1007/s12520-020-01201-3 · Cited by 14
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sukhu, G.
- Corresponding author
- Sukhu, Gopal
- Venue
- State University of New York Press eBooks
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2012
- OpenAlex
- W647892860
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.08
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- State University of New York Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Cultural and Mythological Studies
- Keywords
- Li Sao, Qu Yuan, shamanism, heresy, Chu Ci, Chinese poetry, Daoism
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