If you're interested in shamanism (which is relevant to this account because it was still a big part of the state religion at the time), I just found out there's a reality tv series about a bunch of sangomas in South Africa and it's amazing.
It's a great primary document precisely because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Academic anthropology papers are incredibly po-faced and respectful about everything they record, which is an obligation of the discipline but also kind of unrealistic.
These guys bitch and brag and backstab, and we all know a large component is theatrics but we go along anyway. I'd put money down that ancient Chinese shamanism was closer to this show than to any peer-reviewed analysis of the Chuci ever published.
Watch Izangoma Zodumo.
https://twitter.com/ChongXuCheng/status/1399321452478754818
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