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Inner Sound April 12, 2018 Jonathan Weinel
Abstract: This chapter explores how electroacoustic music takes the listener on a journey through unreal, imaginary, or hallucinatory sound-worlds. The chapter commences with a general explanation of electroacoustic music, and how it may allow illusory representations of real and unreal sounds and spaces. Following this, various compositions of electroacoustic music are discussed, which are...
Semiotica March 26, 2018 Steven Bonta
Abstract: Having identified previously (Bonta 2015) the Peircean Category Firstness as the semiotic basis (or cultural Prime Symbol) for Australian Aboriginal culture, this paper examines the “lens” of Firstness as it is manifest in a variety of aboriginal (or “Shamanic”) cultures worldwide. By studying the semiotic contours of religion, language, social organization, and art, we find systemic...
Oxford Scholarship Online March 22, 2018 Trude Fonneland
Religion is a core unit in terms of how gender stereotypes are produced and realized. By exploring how shamans in Norway use the past to construct narratives of gender in the present, my presentation in this chapter represents an attempt to localize religion and culture in a social and gendered reality.
Oxford Scholarship Online March 22, 2018 Trude Fonneland
The figure of the shaman seems to fit exceptionally well into contemporary structures of needs and motivations in different cultural areas beyond the religious-spiritual field. By exploring the stories and images that are the focus of the spiritual entrepreneur Esther Utsi, I elaborate how, in the wake of Sámi shamanism, a variety of hybrid products have been established, catering for broader...
Oxford Scholarship Online March 22, 2018 Trude Fonneland
The cultural creation developed by practitioners of shamanism in Norway provides insight into processes of religious creation and creativity. These developments and increasing spiritual inventiveness are the focus of this chapter. I am particularly interested in how and what happens when the global culture of shamanism interacts with a specific local culture, in this case, Norwegian society....
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 2018 César E. Giraldo Herrera
Abstract: In Amerindian ontologies, hallucinations or visions, rather than being dismissed as delusions or symbolic constructs, are recognized as means of perceptual access to physical reality. Lowland South American shamans claim to be able to diagnose and treat infectious diseases, and to assess the status of wildlife resources through interactions with pathogenic agents perceived in visions....
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute March 1, 2018 Juliet Erazo, Christopher Jarrett
Abstract: The ontological turn is gaining momentum among many anthropologists today, evidenced by multiple debates and symposia in recent years addressing the role of ontological approaches within the discipline. Equal to the force of the ontological turn are the growing number of passionate critiques that question everything from the ethnographic and historical integrity of this body of work...
February 15, 2018 Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier, Carl Kevin Carew 1 citation
This chapter presents the construction of the idea of a "Male-Shaman-Who-Heals-With-Ayahuasca" as an emergent myth in societies from the political North – a myth which asserts powerful meaning in a global world. This myth is related to power relationships between people and plants that are commodified and embedded in the context of capitalism and patriarchy. Guided by a reflexive empirical...
February 15, 2018 Juan Scuro 10 citations
Since the 1990s, three major (neo)shamanic linages associated with sacred plants use have arrived in Uruguay. Each one comes from a particular Latin American national context: Brazil and its ayahuasca religions, Peru and vegetalismo, Mexico and the Red Path. In what way do these practices and discourses develop in a Latin American country imagined as "white," "without indigenous people," and...
January 18, 2018 Chongho Kim
The literature on Korean shamanism has consistently reported the negative connotations associated with shamans and their practice. Shamanic practice was referred to as a ‘matter of malignance in traditional Korea. It is hard to deny the fact that Korean Christianity has also suffered from shamanism. Seeing everything in terms of fiscal matters, shamanism would take no responsibility for society...
January 18, 2018 Chongho Kim
This chapter argues that the field in which Korean shamans work is ‘the field of misfortune’, which exists separately from the field of health care where medical practitioners work. It also argues that shamanism is not a sort of traditional medicine, and the utilization of shamanic healing is not a phenomenon of medical pluralism. The chapter deals with the definition of shamanism in Korean...
Anthropological Forum January 3, 2018 Dena Sharrock 6 citations
As more Westerners travel to the Amazon jungle to seek healing through the increasingly popular plant medicine, ayahuasca, they are exposed to an environment pervaded by the use of tobacco smoke. Mapacho is the name of the potent jungle tobacco that is central to the shamanic practices of Amazonian plant medicine healing, regarded locally not as a pathogen but rather as a potent ally: a spirit...
Body Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy January 2, 2018 Megan N. Ramos 4 citations
This paper offers a model for integrating a dance/movement therapy practice with some of the themes that show up in literature on shamanic healing ritual. The proposed model is based on literature on shamanism and within the field of dance/movement therapy. It is intended as a first step in an exploration between intersections of the two fields. The model proposes cultivating a sacred container...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 2018 Ana María Oyarce 2 citations
The validity of shamanism is generally denied in the politically dominant health system in Chile although for many people, such as the Mapuche, it is part of their belief system. This chapter describes a case study of the sufferings—and attempts to seek help—of a Mapuche woman under social pressures in a society undergoing cultural changes. The author, an anthropologist who works in the health...
Study of Religion 2018 Renata Schiavo 3 citations
There is some debate about the existence of an “ancient Egyptian shamanism”. A number of scholars used such a label to describe religious phenomena relating to the pre and proto-dynastic religion, the Opening of the Mouth Ritual (especially scenes 9 and 10), and the Tekenu ceremony. Moreover, it is possible to identify a certain “evolutionistic” tendency in explaining the two aforementioned...
Études mongoles sibériennes centrasiatiques et tibétaines 2018 Tatiana Bulgakova 4 citations
Cet article propose une analyse comparative synchronique et diachronique des rituels et des croyances liés au tigre chez les peuples toungouso-mandchous. Ces peuples chamanistes traitent les tigres comme des humains et croient en leur extraordinaire capacité à agir comme tel. Selon les conceptions chamaniques, de tels comportements chez les tigres peuvent s’expliquer par le fait que, en tant...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences January 2018 Albert R. Powers, Philip R. Corlett
Individual-specific predispositions may precede the cultural evolution of shamanism and may be linked to it via principles of predictive coding. We have used these principles to identify commonalities between clinical and shaman-like non-clinical voice-hearers. The author may find this approach helpful in relating the experiences of shamans to those of their clients.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences January 2018 Mark Nielsen, Ronald Fischer, Yoshihisa Kashima
Our species-unique capacity for cumulative culture relies on a complex interplay between social and cognitive motivations. Attempting to understand much of human behaviour will be incomplete if one of these motivations is the focus at the expense of the other. Anchored in gene-culture co-evolution theory, we stake a claim for the importance of social drivers in determining why shamans exist.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences January 2018 Jacob A Fiala, Frederick L. Coolidge
Singh's cultural evolutionary theory of shamanism provides a valuable framework for understanding shamanism. We argue, however, that a full understanding of shamanism should incorporate the psychological predilections and genetic predispositions commonly found in individual shamans. In other words, only a small subset of individuals in a culture is prone or attracted to shamanistic practices,...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences January 2018 Joseph Polimeni
The target article advances several original concepts about shamanism, including prospective explanations for how shamanism could express itself in different cultural settings. Although the potential for "innate psychological tendencies" is acknowledged, the target article prematurely dismisses one such hard-wired feature of shamanism: psychosis.