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Paper explains Korean shamanism as very old set of practices that pervade other religions in Korea into the present; several comparisons with Shamanism in Canadian Inuit; reference to theory on how outsider scholars study shamanism, presuppositions versus what Korean shamanism or Inuit shamanism tell us. Last note on why it might be that Korean and Inuit cultures took well to Christianity in the last century or so. Are we asking the right questions about shamanism or how it changes one's view of life?

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The Implications of Shamanism in Korean Culture. Introductory Discussion Shamanism or Mu reached the Korean peninsula with early migrations from elsewhere and demonstrates beliefs and practices that are also found in Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia, various parts of China and Japan. As this paper indicates, as a kind of subtext, similarities in shamanism should help insight into a kind of arc across cultures extending from Central Asia to the Inuit of Arctic Canada and Greenland. Whereas shamanism has been regarded as exotic by outsiders it is properly seen as a much duplicated set of tendencies in belief and practice that are usual

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