Wikipedia's community maintained article on Michael Harner, the anthropologist who founded the "core shamanism" movement and wrote The Way of the Shaman, carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page, and is continuously subject to further editing. Its strength is that it is freely checkable and, for uncontroversial biographical facts such as dates and institutional affiliations, is generally reliable. Its limit is that Harner's own claims about core shamanism's relationship to the indigenous traditions it draws from are contested among anthropologists, and a claim of that kind should be checked against dedicated scholarship rather than rest on this page alone.
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Wikipedia's community maintained article on Michael Harner, founder of the "core shamanism" movement, the lower tier reflecting no named author or peer review process behind any version of the page. It is generally reliable for uncontroversial biographical facts, and Harner's own claims about core shamanism's relationship to the indigenous traditions it draws from are contested among anthropologists and should be checked against dedicated scholarship. NotesWikipedia's article on Michael Harner. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Michael Harner (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner
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