Shamanic Gift in the Global Village: Spiritual Energy and Biomedicine
Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology December 1, 2019 T. Bužeková 10 citations
Abstract Neo-shamanism or urban shamanism is a movement which concentrates on spiritual healing and aims to revive traditional shamanism. The aim of the paper is to explore the legitimation of charismatic neo-shamanic healers in relation to biomedicine which is a dominant authoritative body of medical knowledge in European societies. The paper presents the results of ethnographic research on...