From generation to generation While a few shamans still operate, their numbers and functions have fallen dramatically. As the anthropologist Juan Chang-jui says, "It's not like the past, when the shaman had a high status and a good income in traditional villages."
普遍而言，雖然仍有少數巫師仍在施法，但是人數與功能卻在銳減，「不像過去，巫師在傳統部落裡的地位其實很高，收入也很好」，阮昌銳說。