Shamanic knowledge: The challenge to information science

Advances in the Study of Information and Religion - 2014

Volume 1 Article 7

9-1-2011

Shamanic Knowledge: The Challenge toInformation ScienceJay H. BernsteinKingsborough Community College, CUNY

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