Indigenous shamanic therapeutics have often been reductively construed as either religious or psychopathological phenomena within (neo)colonial academic discourses. Cutting across these reductive interpretations, this article presents a culturally embedded, decolonial exposition of Angami Naga shamanic aetiology and treatment through an ethno-literary analysis of two short stories from Avinuo...
Colonialism's deleterious impact on Indigenous epistemologies has engendered an exigent concern in the project of decoloniality, calling for a re-existence of marginalized cosmovisions. To accomplish this, an epistemic delinking from the paradigm of Eurocentric discourses is imperative in the interest of a comprehensive appreciation and recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems. In this vein,...