Family-Borne Efficacy: Shamanic Healing in Contemporary Xibo Households in Xinjiang
Religions August 26, 2026 Haiyan Xing, Shuyi Jia, Dongzhi Sangji
This article examines how patients and their relatives in contemporary Xibo families come to understand whether shamanic healing has “worked.” Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2026 in Qapqal Xibo Autonomous County, Yili, Xinjiang, it analyzes two closely observed healing rituals performed by the same shaman for two members of one family: a mother suffering...