Research SquareAugust 3, 2022Lin Ban, Xiaohong Lv, Dawei Cai et al.
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Abstract Death represents the termination of all biological functions that sustain an organism and is inevitable in the ordinary life of people. Throughout history, death has been a topic of discussion. The emotion of fear of death has existed since the birth of human beings and has become even more so after civilization. To alleviate the fear of death, the unknown thing, primitive people began...
Scientific ReportsAugust 1, 2022Julián Padró, Diego de Panis, Pierre Luisi et al.5 citations
Cultural transformations of lifestyles and dietary practices have been key drivers of human evolution. However, while most of the evidence of genomic adaptations is related to the hunter-gatherer transition to agricultural societies, little is known on the influence of other major cultural manifestations. Shamanism is considered the oldest religion that predominated throughout most of human...
Şor kahramanlık destanları Türkoloji, folklor, etnografi gibi alanlarda çalışan çok sayıda bilim insanının araştırmalarına konu olmuştur. Bir Şor Türkü olan çevre aktivisti Alexander Arbaçakov ve folklor araştırmacısı, şair ve ressam olan Luba Arbaçakova’nın yayına hazırladığı Shor Shamanic Epic Folktales [Şor Şamanik Kahramanlık Anlatıları] eseri de Şor Türklerinin edebî zenginliğini ortaya...
The paper explores Michael Harner's “basic shamanism” as a syncretic phenomenon in modern culture. Neo-shamanism is considered as a subculture or syncretic form of new religious consciousness that combines with elements of traditional cultures and elements of modern psychology and mysticism (esotericism) in modern popular culture. The article defines the problem of the emergence and development...
Shamanism is a system composed of various elements of culture and belief,created by people to understand life and come to grips with what is happeningaround them. It has an elaborate structure in terms of existing in well-roundedcommunities. It has various features that have different aspects compared tothe different times and conditions of the society. It also adopts local beliefsand the...
The PluralistJune 15, 2022Joshua M H Hall3 citations
Among Anthropologists, There Is A Fierce Controversy over the figure of the shaman, with some reserving the term for practitioners in hunter-gatherer societies in present-day Siberia (among whom the term originated), and others defining shaman more broadly to include any figure performing similar functions, from prehistory until today. 1 Though the exact nature of these functions (and whether...
This research analyzes the cultural practices surrounding the Tembé shaman in the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Land, northeast of the State of Pará. Establishes connections and evaluates interactions, loans and exchanges with practices of African and European origin, which reveal afroindigenous relations within the villages. Mapping the specificities of pajelança, practitioners and knowledge...
Abstract After a spiritual epiphany, the Sakha shaman Alexander Gabyshev became prominent in 2018–2020 by calling Vladimir Putin an authoritarian demon. Critiquing Russia's corrupt society through the internet and a protest march, Alexander rose to civic society leadership with multiethnic sympathizers. This article explains why Alexander became popular, and how he became a threat to Russia's...
The purpose of the study is to reveal the phenomenon of "basic shamanism" (neo-Shamanism) in modern culture, founded by M. Harner. To determine the specifics of the development of neo-Shamanism and its significance in the spiritual life of society. The article discusses the transmission of knowledge of neo-Shamanism and its transformation through two neo-Shamanic schools ("Foundation for...
Shamanism is a pervasive form of ritual practice documented within hunter-gathering and farming societies throughout the world, and continuing within some present-day urban communities. Despite exhibiting considerable variation, shamanism has several recurrent features, notably the role of the shaman as a mediator between the spirit and human worlds. Shamanism has been cited to explain aspects...
Book Review| May 01 2022 Review: Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains, by Kathleen Bolling Lowrey Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains. By Kathleen Bolling Lowrey. University Press of Colorado, 2020. 238 pages. $77.00 hardcover; $27.95 softcover; ebook available. Tarryl Janik Tarryl Janik University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee...
The history of the terms and expressions associated with smallpox offers evidence of semantic change and reflects both the internal and external worldviews of Korean people with regard to smallpox. In Korean shamanic language, smallpox is personified as gods known by various names with their own linguistic registers, personalities, and behaviors. The present paper first analyzes the semantic...
Abstract The Indigenous cultures of South America developed a diverse array of traditional uses for psychoactive plants. This chapter surveys the historical and anthropological literatures on these practices. Pre-Columbian usage, later labeled as idolatry, was transformed by European colonization of the Americas. However, chroniclers such as Sahagun, Hernández, de Acosta, and Monardes, as well...
Intense and persistent perception of the presence within absence of the deceased does not necessarily dissipate spontaneously but may become a disabling and unalterable fixation of grief. Many traditions describe fixations as not only caused by the absence of the deceased but sustained by a deep fissure within the soul of the bereaved. Shamanic healing may offer a connection with the imbalanced...
Amerindians, living in a perspective of synchronicity, attribute to symmetry a negative value that produces an understanding of unstable dualism cosmologies, in a continuous and dynamic imbalance, in a notion of complementarity between conscious and unconscious. These notions are in line with the view of synchronicity proposed by Jung (1952/1972) and Cambray (2013), a view that expands...
In its simplest form, the shamanistic theory of schizophrenia proposes that the core features of schizophrenia are akin to the primary qualities of shamanism; and that psychosis provided certain evolutionary advantages to prehistoric hominid tribes. The idea that shamanism could be comparable to medical forms of insanity can be traced back to early academic expeditions assigned to explore the...
The present contribution offers a descriptive account of two recent books concerning shamanism, Homayun Sidky’s The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity: A Cognitive Anthropological Perspective (2017) and Sergio Botta’s Dagli sciamani allo sciamanesimo. Discorsi, credenze, pratiche (2018). The commentary starts by supplying a brief historical contextualization of the subfield...
Jung JournalJanuary 2, 2022Robert M. Carriger, Haar Suor
ABSTRACT Shamanism is generally considered to be humankind’s original religious practice. Centuries of Russian oppression followed by more recent exposure to Western media culture may have weakened the transmission of traditions of the Sakha people in Arctic Siberia, but a new generation of Sakha healers still strives to keep their traditions alive in a modern world. These contemporary healers...
Genre features and structure of shamanic narratives existing in Tuvan folklore are analyzed. Two types of stories have been identified in the performing tradition – from the ritual specialist and the bearer of the tradition. The mythological picture in both types of stories complement each other, in them the general narrative model characteristic of shamanic narratives is preserved. It is...
This article foregrounds an unofficial, “dark” strand of shamanic revival, which lies at the interstices of local inspirational religion and the state’s law in a Siberian periphery. Focusing on consultations concerned with ritual healing and counter-cursing in the Russian Republic of Tuva/Tyva, southern Siberia, the article documents a field of metaphysical disorder which is governed by shamans...