Blood, beasts, ecstasy: the bodily codes of shamanism in the system of archaic biopolitics
Manuscript July 7, 2026 Elena Alekseevna Okladnikova, Alexander Mikhailovich Prilutskii
The aim of the work is to rethink the sacred functions of shamans with an emphasis on the social functions that shamans/ritualists performed in primitive and then traditional societies, and not only on the mystical content of early forms of religious ideas described by ethnologists and art historians. The article implements a theoretical transfer of the postulates of biopolitics (M. Foucault,...