Talk:anasik

Sabine Lang notes that they were historically active as shamans (the 2002 book Many faces of gender says more strongly that "Women-men (anasik) on St. Lawrence Island were considered to be especially powerful shamans"), although Stephen Murray says "in the village population between 1940 and 1955, one man was said to be anasik and another “partly anasik,” but neither one shamanized. It thus seems evident that, by mid-century, this aspect of the shaman's role had been suppressed." - -sche (discuss) 06:34, 2 July 2015 (UTC)