Whats the difference between a Shaman and a sorcerer?

Question

Whats the difference between a Shaman and a sorcerer?

Answer 1

They both use magic, but the Shaman was trying to use magic to heal the sick, foretell the future, interpret dreams, communicate with spirits, etc.  The Shaman has a role to play in a tribe, such as the Medicine Man in Native American tribes.  

Answer 2

A sorcerer wears a cape and pointed hat and draws a magic circle on the ground. He's also got a big vat boiling over a fire, a thick magic book on a stand and a magic wand in hand. A Shaman wears a scary mask, becomes possessed by animals and is an occasional drug user. He also guides others on drug trips.

Got it?

Answer 3

Shamans are medicine (meaning -- knowledge) men and women and possess certain skill set specialties.  They are the equivalent of the professors in the schools; some have medical skills (as in actual medicine) while others have scientific knowledges or wisdom or what is tantamount to philosophical knowledge.  They are therefore referrents.  

Sorcerers tend more in the area of working with nature itself, manipulating matter, which some might call magic, which entails working with illusion; but in fact, sorcerers work as well with materiality, which is not illusional at all.

Both the shaman and sorcerer can practice the right hand- or the left hand path; the dark and the light side of nature.  And theirs 'can' cross-collaborate.  For in some instances, the two are one in the same.

Answer 4

  The Shaman is a communicator with spirits in other dimensions, where a sorcerer is a magician.