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English citations of shopan
- 1915, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual inversion:
- The boy is selected to be a schopan because he is girl-like. This is a point of some interest as it indicates that the schopan is not effeminated solely by suggestion and association, but is probably feminine by inborn constitution.
- 1992 April 1, Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 194:
- Despite the Russians' projections of berdachism's imminent disappearance, a full century later observers reported that shopans continued to be fairly common.
- 2001 January 1, Joanne B. Mulcahy, Birth & Rebirth on an Alaskan Island: The Life of an Alutiiq Healer, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- Shamans were sometimes designated at birth or received the call in a dream. Some were male or a kind of third gender called “shopans,” or “achnuceks.”