# Inspector task sheet

Jajouka: healing trance, or a story told about the music?

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Jajouka: healing trance, or a story told about the music?, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Trace patron accounts, album descriptions and attributed musician testimony separately. Compare translations and the context in which statements were made. Distinguish a reported sense of calm from a demonstrated clinical outcome. Use the comparative masquerade study as a methodological check, not as interchangeable local evidence.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Trace each claim to an attributable speaker and compare it with contemporary local accounts. Keep claims of meaning, subjective experience and externally measured effects in separate evidence registers. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

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