The involvement of a Peruvian shaman in spiritual tours for foreigners raises questions of authenticity and reliability in anthropological research. The ethnographer's initial sense of betrayal is replaced with an assessment of the anthropological significance of the commercialization of shamanism. When is an informant no longer believable and what responsibility does the ethnographer bear as gatekeeper to public renown?
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Donald Joralemon (1990) studied this question.
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