殷商甲骨卜醉所見之巫術 (7) Graduate Institute,where I have had the privilege of studying oracle bone inscriptions (jiaguwen)and shamanism with Professor Hsu Chin-hsiung.Professor Hsu's more than three decades of work in oracle bone inscriptions has resulted in great contributions to the current understanding of the oracle bone inscriptions and the culture that produced them. This book entitled References to Shamanism in the Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones in which I look at and analyze characters related to shamanism in the early written attestations within the context of general concepts and practices of shamanism.The body of words relating to shamanism is extensive,attesting to the importance of this practice in ancient China,especially in Shang Dynasty,and suggesting much about its specific forms.Chinese shamanistic practices mentioned in early texts include exorcism,prophecy,divination,ritual ceremony,medical treatment,rain-making and the interpretation of dreams.Dancing seems to have been one of their defining features and an important part of their religious practice.Within this wide range of practices,we can see a rough division between dissociative religious practices,such as the summoning of deities on the one hand and more technical (and teachable)aspects,such as divination and ritual performance on the other.Such a possible division between the technical/scriptural and the phenomenological/ecstatic is clearly of interest in the context of the oracle bone inscriptions and the