Shamanism & Animism
Belief systems centered on a spirit world and mediators (shamans) who interact with it for healing, divination, and ritual.
Core metadata
- ID: shamanism_animism
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -10000 (millennium)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: structurally_validated
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Ancestor Worship (ancestor_worship)
- Early Symbolic Communication (early_symbolic_communication)
- Herbalism (herbalism)
- Mythology & Cosmology (mythology_and_cosmology)
- Primitive Surgery (e.g., Trepanation) (primitive_surgery_trepanation)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Oral Tradition (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Tradition & Storytelling (oral_tradition_storytelling) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Oral Tradition & Storytelling provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Tribalism (tribalism) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Tribalism provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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