Shamanism in a postmodern age
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore 1996 DOI: 10.7592/fejf1996.02.hoppal (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Shamanism |
| Citations | 7 |
| Key points | Argues that in the mid-20th century, through the 1960s and 1970s, both the communist Soviet Union and Western capitalist countries widely held that Siberian shamanism had ceased to exist and belonged to worthless ideological memories of the past, a view the author ties to a shared faith in development and a modern world. |
Abstract
A few decades ago it was generally held that shamanism in Siberia had ceased to exist and belonged among the worthless ideological memories of the past.This opinion prevailed both in the communist Soviet Union which still existed at that time, as well as in other parts of the world, in the western capitalist countries.In the mid-20th century and even in the sixties and seventies both ideological systems still lived in the fever of development.The most important ideal in those decades was that of the modern world that could be created through development.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on shamanism, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond | 2014 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Shamanism as the Original Neurotheology | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Cognitive Neuroscience, Shamanism and the Rock Art of Native California | 1998 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| From Culture to Experience: Shamanism in the Pages of the Soviet Anti-Religious Press | 2020 | Historical analysis | |
| Anthropology, Shamanism, and Alternate Ways of Knowing–Being in the World: One Anthropologist's Journey of Discovery and Transformation | 2010 | Reflective essay or personal narrative |