Tradition

Angakkuq

Overview

The angakkuq is an intellectual and spiritual figure in Inuit culture who corresponds to a medicine man or shaman. Other cultures, including Alaska Natives, have traditionally had similar spiritual mediators, although the Alaska Native religion has many forms and variants.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Ethnography
• Inuit
• Shamanism
• Arctic
• Anthropology
• Inuit religion
• Sedna (mythology)

Place in the tradition

Part of Shamanism.

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