NORTHERN ARCHIVES AND EXPEDITIONS
December 30, 2021
S. A. Unru
In the course of field research on the territory of three Evenki settlements (Iengra Neryungrinsky ulus of the Yakutia, Pervomayskoye and Bomnak of the Amur region), we collected information about the features of mythology, genealogy, formation, equipment and practice of female shamans. The purpose of the study was to describe female shamanism among the Evenks, its current state, work with...
Музыкальное искусство Евразии. Традиции и современность
December 30, 2021
О.а. Власова
В статье предпринимается попытка формулирования основных предварительных положений теории шаманского интонирования. Данный феномен, вобравший в себя тысячелетний опыт оперирования голосом как инструментом, помогающим, по предположению автора, вхождению в измененные состояния сознания (Ч. Тарт), является неотъемлемым и сущностным элементом традиционного шаманизма. В первом разделе статьи...
Lagoonscapes
December 21, 2021
Lidia Guzy
This article deals with indigenous shamanic worldviews and indigenous knowledge as dialogical eco-cosmology. It shows the relevance of eco-cosmology as local indigenous ecological and spiritual knowledge in the context of global biodiversity and sustainability discourses.
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
December 17, 2021
H. Muhammad, Ilyas Supena, A. A. Junaidi et al.
To overcome various problems, the practice of shamanism has gained popularity in Javanese society. The belief of the society in this practice is increasing, mainly because of the involvement of the kyai (an honorific title of the Muslim clergy), who serves as a shaman. The kyai, in this regard, uses Qur’anic verses in his mantra. This study aims to reveal how the use of the Qur’anic verses is...
Český lid
December 15, 2021
Athanasios Barmpalexis
Based on an ethnographic study of ‘Western’ forms of contemporary shamanism in North East Scotland, the article discusses the significant role that eremitism plays in folk healing systems, particularly in shamanism. The tendency to live an isolated life is not only a key feature of traditional shamanic healing practices, but it can also be found in contemporary manifestations of them. Two such...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 28, 2021
Bernd Brabec de Mori
15 citations
During the last decades, ayahuasca gained much popularity among non-Indigenous and out-of-Amazonia based populations. In popular culture, it has been advertised as a natural remedy that was discovered by Indigenous peoples ante millennia and that has been used for shamanic healing of all kinds of ailments. This “neo-shamanic,” and often recreational, use of ayahuasca, however, has to be...
Annual Review of Anthropology
October 21, 2021
Bruce Grant
14 citations
If our knowledge of shamanism has been so abidingly partial, so impressively uneven, so deeply varied by history, and so enduringly skeptical for so long, how has its study come to occupy such pride of place in the anthropological canon? One answer comes in a history of social relations where shamans both are cast as translators of the unseen and are themselves sites of anxiety in a very real...
Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas
September 1, 2021
Thomas Matusiak
Teo Hernández (Ciudad Hidalgo 1939–Paris 1992) began a prolific career as an experimental filmmaker after entering a self-imposed exile in Paris in 1966. With no formal training, he completed dozens of films on the amateur format of Super 8 before his untimely death at the height of the AIDS epidemic in France. Hernández’s cinema cannot be separated from his postcolonial experience as an...
Journal of Religion in Japan
August 3, 2021
Silvia Rivadossi
Abstract This article contributes to the discussion on reactions and responses to the coronavirus pandemic in Japan, with specific reference to the field of “new spirituality” and, within this broad category, of shamanic spirituality. The case of the dance therapist, or “dance movement shaman,” Ms. Hiroda demonstrates how she managed to keep in contact with her practitioners and to design new...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
July 29, 2021
R. A. Northover
3 citations
The study reappraised Emile Durkheim’s totemic principle in relation to the origins of religion and culture, using, amongst others, speech act theory and recent southern African epistemologies, especially David Lewis-Williams’ theory of shamanism, potency and altered states of consciousness. The study was text-based, qualitative and interpretive, and used key texts from anthropology,...
Culture
July 8, 2021
Erich Kasten
Shamanism, as defined in this paper, existed among the Sami only into the 19th century. Besides its relatively early dissolution it displays certain unique features, as well as basic ideological similarities, that distinguish it from circumpolar shamanism in general. These variations are studied here as indicators of religious change in two periods of Sami history: the period of the impact of...
Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
July 5, 2021
L. S. Dampilova
Проведено исследование региональной специфики бурятских обрядов в разнообразии реализаций мифологических и исторических составляющих и поздних инноваций. Впервые в историческом и этнокультурном контексте расшифровывается мифологический компонент вербального материала, сопровождающего обрядовые действа бурят. По современным полевым и архивным материалам выявлены контаминация, трансформация мифа...
Journal of Ethnobiology
July 1, 2021
Hernando Echeverri-Sanchez
1 citation
This article explores the use of Cyperus articulates in Putumayo, Colombia. This often-overlooked medicinal plant, known here as chondur, is used as a shamanic tool to fight the multiplicity of spiritual agents that can cause illness in western Amazonia. It also has a central role in yagé/ ayahuasca ceremonies, placing it in a unique position for an analytical observation of the dynamics of...
Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Ushuluddin
June 30, 2021
Riza Saputra, Husnul Khotimah
1 citation
This paper aims at finding the relational system, religious encounter, and modernity of the Temiar community in Malaysia. The form of this research has focused on literature research (library research) by using literature as a source of research. The method used is an analysis of documents by conducting content analysis. This within-case analysis is followed by a thematic analysis across the...
Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
June 10, 2021
Darmaiza Darmaiza
Shamanism is an idea which is improving in the primitive society, in which is having more in any animistic activity, to relate any living activity which is called “Shaman” is connect believe the spirit life which the human living now. The appearance of “Shaman” in the now living becomes an introducer for people to, tell any difficult inner livings, in the privates or society ones the most in...
Religions
May 28, 2021
Eleanor Harrison-Buck, D. Freidel
33 citations
Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist, social evolutionary theory and have been criticized for their vague and homogenizing rubric, an overly romanticized idealism, and the tendency to ‘other’ nonwestern peoples as ahistorical, apolitical, and irrational. The...
May 11, 2021
Jens Schlieter
2 citations
The contribution will discuss the impact of American Theosophist Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) on the emerging "science of religion." Evans-Wentz first pursued Celtic studies, concluding in his The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Here, in line with Theosophical doctrines and Psychical Research, he claimed a "Fairyland" as "a supernormal state of consciousness into which men and women...
Community Mental Health Journal
May 2021
Tony V Pham, Rishav Koirala, Milton L Wainberg et al.
In this Fresh Focus, we reassess what the mental health treatment gap may mean if we consider the role of traditional healing. Based on systematic reviews, patients can use traditional healers and qualitatively report improvement from general psychological distress and symptom reduction for common mental disorders. Given these clinical implications, some high-income countries have scaled up...
ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА
April 24, 2021
Галина Борисовна Сыченко
Статья посвящена рассмотрению основных подходов к изучению музыки в шаманизме, сложившихся и функционирующих в современной антропологии и музыковедении. Автор характеризует различные направления в каждом из них, приводя в качестве примеров и анализируя наиболее показательные труды. Литература (источники и исследования) подобрана таким образом, чтобы позволить читателю самостоятельно расширить...
April 23, 2021
Flavio A. Geisshuesler
1 citation
The Integration of Eliade and Lévi-Strauss: Sacred Poles and Songs of Labor as Forms of De-historification After Vittorio Macchioro recommended Eliade's Yoga: An Essay on the Origins of Indian Mysticism (1936) to his new son-in-law shortly after its publication, de Martino's legacy leaves no traces of the Romanian giant for a decade.1Even though Eliade's lengthy article entitled "The Problem of...