Oriental Studies
April 21, 2021
Liudmila S. Dampilova, Ekaterina V. Sundueva
Introduction. In mythologies of the world, the image of the snake ranks among the most studied characters and has various interpretations. In folklore of Turko-Mongols, it has also been a subject of multiple analyses. Still, the article makes a first attempt at revealing the image of the snake as a taboo sacred character in ritual folklore of the Mongolic peoples. Goals. The paper primarily...
Religions
April 7, 2021
Tiina Äikäs, Trude Fonneland
In this paper, we study the role of power animals in contemporary Saami shamanism and how past and present are entwined in the presentation of power animals. In the old Saami worldviews, in addition to animals, spirits and sacred rocks (sieidi, SaaN) were also considered to be able to interact with people. Animals were an important part of offering rituals because livelihood and rituals were...
Current Anthropology
April 1, 2021
Alex K. Gearin, Óscar Calavia Sáez
15 citations
Notions of visualism and individualism have long been employed to elucidate the contours of Western subjectivity. It is therefore not surprising to find the indigenous Amazonian shamanic brew ayahuasca being adopted by Australian neoshamanic practitioners as a medicine that provides personalized visions delivering unambiguous moral import. While this adoption represents a radically new style of...
Scientific Reports
March 23, 2021
Brandon Weiss, Joshua D. Miller, Nathan T. Carter et al.
80 citations
Abstract The present study examines the association between the ceremonial use of ayahuasca—a decoction combining the Banistereopsis caapi vine and N,N-Dimethyltryptamine-containing plants—and changes in personality traits as conceived by the Five-Factor model (FFM). We also examine the degree to which demographic characteristics, baseline personality, and acute post-ayahuasca experiences...
Journal of Philosophy Culture and Political Science
March 19, 2021
Z. Abikenov
KORKYT ATA AND SHAMANIC VALUES This article examines shamanism as an ancient religion and reveals the secrets of the faith healer shaman, who owns all magical rituals andinfluence of shamanic music and the special nature of kobyz sounds. The connection between ancient forms and meanings included in the anthropomorphic structure of the kobyz structure considers in sacred form. The etymological...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
March 18, 2021
Emma R. Huels, Hyoungkyu Kim, UnCheol Lee et al.
51 citations
Psychedelics have been recognized as model interventions for studying altered states of consciousness. However, few empirical studies of the shamanic state of consciousness, which is anecdotally similar to the psychedelic state, exist. We investigated the neural correlates of shamanic trance using high-density electroencephalography (EEG) in 24 shamanic practitioners and 24 healthy controls...
Anthropology & medicine
March 2021
James Andrew Whitaker
This paper examines bodily transformation and well-being within the context of a millenarian movement that emerged during the 1840s in the area surrounding Mount Roraima at the periphery of Brazil, Guyana (British Guiana at the time), and Venezuela. The site of this movement was Beckeranta - meaning 'Land of the Whites' - where up to 400 Amerindians were reportedly killed in a quest that is...
Frontiers in Pharmacology
February 23, 2021
Michael Winkelman
62 citations
This review illustrates the relevance of shamanism and its evolution under effects of psilocybin as a framework for identifying evolved aspects of psychedelic set and setting. Effects of 5HT2 psychedelics on serotonin, stress adaptation, visual systems and personality illustrate adaptive mechanisms through which psychedelics could have enhanced hominin evolution as an environmental factor...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
February 17, 2021
Thomas G. Park
Various scholars have suggested that the main function of Korean shamanic rituals is the change of the participants’ feelings. I elaborate what these scholars potentially mean by “function”, challenge what I take to be their core claim, and argue that at least in the case of Korean shamanic healing rituals their sponsorship has rather to be explained based on the clients’ ostensible...
Anthropology of Consciousness
February 12, 2021
Arne Harms
7 citations
Abstract Existing research demonstrates a positive connection between psychedelics and increased nature relatedness. Enhanced affective ties toward nature are widely framed as being built into the pharmakon itself, and the relevance of experiences remains little understood. This paper turns to neoshamanic ayahuasca ceremonies in Europe, exploring the way specialists and attendants refer to...
International journal of mental health systems
January 7, 2021
Tony V Pham, Rishav Koirala, Brandon A Kohrt
There is increasing access to mental health services in biomedical settings (e.g., primary care and specialty clinics) in low- and middle-income countries. Traditional healing continues to be widely available and used in these settings as well. Our goal was to explore how the general public, traditional healers, and biomedical clinicians perceive the different types of services and make...
Anthropological Forum
January 2, 2021
Isabell Herrmans
9 citations
ABSTRACT This article uses a myth of the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo to reflect upon the value of sociality and its role in promoting well-being in their healing rituals. In these rituals, sociality with nonhuman beings and between participants is crucial, yet insufficient for, and sometimes at odds with, success. The article describes the multiple modes and valences of this ritual sociality,...
Scientific Bulletin
2021
Shabnam Vagif Huseynova
Azerbaijani epic folklore has a rich imaginative world. One of these images is the image of an old woman. Speaking about the image of the old woman, it is important to raise the question of a shamanic woman. Because in primitive beliefs, the old woman also appears as a female shaman. The reason is that shamanism in the nature of the image of an old woman is directly rela- ted to the feminine...
Problems of Archaeology Ethnography Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories
2021
V. A. Burnakov
Horse is a domestic animal of great importance in the economic life and spiritual culture of the Khakas, in particular, in shamanism. In the Khakas ethnography, the question of the meaning of the horse in the ritual practice of the shamans remains little studied. Due to this, the purpose of this article is to characterize the image of a horse in the shamanic attributes of the Khakas. The...
2021
John Brunner
Religious and spiritual traditions, including shamanism, have long been understood as the origins of theatre and the performing arts. While these practices are fundamental to understanding the instinctual, human act of communal storytelling, this history is too often brushed aside in modern artistic practice and arts education. As the theatre industry aims to reform and reorient itself in the...