《當代巫文化的多元面貌》為2016年11月2日至4日由中央研究院民族學研究所主辦的「当代巫文化的多元面貌」学术研讨会的會議論文集。

該書為華語世界巫文化研究的田野與理論對話交流，將比較視野從臺灣擴展到鄰近區域的中國南北方及東南亞。十五篇文章的作者各自在不同的田野地點從事長期與深入的調查，提出1990年迄今新的現況調查資料，顯現巫文化當代的多元面貌。本書著重國家與地方社會互動下 特有的時空脈絡，強調不同地區巫信仰文化的獨特性，並使用當地的專有詞彙及語言來理解分析。同時採用華語社會普遍慣用的巫概念，對西方shaman理論提出反思，孕育新的研究取向與理論視野，為巫文化的動態民族誌注入新血。

Diverse Faces of Contemporary Wu (Shamanic) Cultures contains fifteen papers written by scholars from the Sinophone world. All authors have completed comprehensive fieldwork in their selected sites and provide new post-1990 data to reveal the diverse faces of Wu (shamanic) cultures in Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia. Each study emphasizes the interactions of the nation and local society in a specific space-time context, the distinctive characteristics of Wu (shamanic) cultures, and the native terms and language necessary to understand these phenomena. As contrasted with the Western concept of the ‘Shaman’, the popular Sinophone concept of Wu is adopted to stimulate reflexive thoughts and theories, and to promote dynamic ethnographies of these diverse cultures.