International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
December 31, 2023
Kasturi Sinha -, Gurudev Meher -
Shamanism, a universal phenomenon, originated in Inner Asia and has evolved over time. Haruki Murakami, a renowned Japanese author, has crossed cultural divides and gained attention with his works of fiction. His belief in protecting the individual for society's benefit is what appeals to and offends people about him. Murakami's works often convey a sense of loneliness and dislocation through...
Jurnal Antropologi: Isu-Isu Sosial Budaya
December 28, 2023
Pardamean Dame Daulay, Momy A. Hunowui
The Practice of Shamanism Continues into Modern Society. To survive and grow, shamans follow the development of the times and continuously adapt to technological advancements. This research aims to explore the utilization of information technology in shamanic practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research method used is qualitative, using modernization theory. The results show the...
Interdisciplinary Research in Counseling, Ethics and Philosophy - IRCEP
December 20, 2023
Daniela Stănciulescu
1 citation
In shamanic thinking, an important idea is that the earth does not belong to us. Earth is just a wonderful and welcoming host for us and other species. Did the sense of ownership dehumanize us, as the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau would observe? Maybe. Lust for wealth, greed, and selfishness, these traits specific only to human people, among all inhabitants of our planet led, over...
Traditiones
December 2, 2023
Tatiana Bužeková
3 citations
The paper examines how Slovak traditional concepts related to magical healing are used in a group around an urban shaman living in Bratislava (Slovakia). It is argued that practitioners’ stories about spiritual healing are based on narrative templates which could be identified in Slovak traditional folk stories. It is concluded that folk tradition plays an important role in adapting alternative...
Sibirica
December 1, 2023
Yana S. Ivashchenko, Andrei A. Ivanov
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of how neo-shamanic communicative practices have evolved in Siberia and the Russian Far East over the last four decades. We identify three social cultural factors that have facilitated the spread of neo-shamanism: the ideological vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet system; foreign missionaries and their work; and ethnic revival. We discern three...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
November 30, 2023
Tanya M Luhrmann, John Dulin, Vivian Dzokoto
8 citations
This paper presents evidence that some-but not all-religious experts in a particular faith may have a schizophrenia-like psychotic process which is managed or mitigated by their religious practice, in that they are able to function effectively and are not identified by their community as ill. We conducted careful phenomenological interviews, in conjunction with a novel probe, with okomfo,...
ARTECH
November 28, 2023
Emília Simão, João Martinho Moura
From archaic contexts to current reconfigurations, the shaman, wrapped in magical-religious lineages, operates as a guiding element, inducer of ecstatic states, and mediator between worlds. Can technology allow these attributes when digital codes and organic webs spin together, fueling cosmological dances and transitions to altered states of consciousness? The project Cosmic Dance, A...
Religion, Brain & Behavior
November 24, 2023
Ari Brouwer, Michael J. Winkelman, C. Raison
6 citations
ABSTRACT The cross-cultural practice of shamanism reflects an innate capacity for altered states of consciousness (ASC’s) that are elicited by stress, deliberately sought in shamanic rituals, and associated with psychopathology. Shamanic sickness, animal transformation, and death-rebirth experiences specifically resemble psychotic experiences. The triggers of shamanic and psychotic experiences...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
November 22, 2023
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
This article investigates the styles of enquiry involved in Lowland South American Amerindian shamanic and narrative discourse genres. The article argues in favour of the existence of an Amazonian mode of thinking strictly related to formulaic composition, commonly found in different verbal poetic genres and its contemporary transformations into written texts published as books by Amerindian...
Qeios
November 20, 2023
Yemi Atanda
preprint
Shamanism is an animistic religious practice characterized by belief in a metaphysical world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits that can only be understood by shamans. This work examines religious shamanism in the face of modernity to provoke laughter through comedy. While provoking laughter, it unmasks truth; rot, deceit, corruption, and megalomania in a postcolonial site. There are three...
Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review
November 15, 2023
Vasile Albineț
The social functions of ritual are well studied in anthropology, but their psychological and neural basis for reconfiguring the individual self remains less explored. This study focuses on the initiation ritual in Tamang shamanism in Nepal, demonstrating how cultural tools help transform the cognitive and embodied self-narratives of individuals experiencing various biopsychological disorders...
Enigma in Cultural
November 9, 2023
Olivia Risma
Various ethnic groups in Sumatra also possess shamanic traditions that involve traditional rites and the involvement of shamans or individuals with specialized skills in countering black magic. Each of these ethnic groups possesses distinct practices and beliefs. The Batak tribe has diverse ethnic subgroups, including Toba Batak, Karo, Mandailing, and others. Within Batak culture, there exist...
Anthropology of Consciousness
November 8, 2023
Christine S. Vanpool, Laura Lee, Paul Robear et al.
5 citations
Abstract Here, we describe how Casas Grandes Medio period (AD 1200 to 1450) shamanic practices of the North American Southwest used tobacco shamanism, a ritual stance called the Tennessee Diviner (TD) posture, and cultural expectations to generate trance experiences of soul flight and divination. We introduce a conceptual model that holds that specific trance experiences are the emergent result...
The Society Of Korean Oral Literature
September 30, 2023
Hyung Kun Kim
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Oral Literature Society, this study summarizes the research results in the field of shamanic songs over the past period. Shamanic songs are a part of a whole called shamanism. Therefore, we must understand the shamanic research flow within the overall flow of shamanic research, and within that flow, we can discuss the trends,...
Oriental Studies
September 18, 2023
Liudmila S. Dampilova, Evdokia E. Khabunova, Balzira V. Elbikova
Introduction. In the Buryat tradition, healing was a most common function attributed to shamans. The main pragmatic aspect of healing depends on the semiotic component of a ritual, communicative connection with the other world being a key indicative. Healing practices of Turko-Mongolian shamans were distinguished by that rituals were accompanied by spells aimed at propitiating or neutralizing...
Philology. Theory & Practice
August 29, 2023
Maria Danilovna Danchinova
The oral prose of the Buryats includes, along with other genres, stories about shamanic dreams, the uniqueness and originality of which are undeniable. The aim of the research is to determine the theoretical and poetic significance of this genre, the depth of the depiction of the national worldview. The peculiarity of these stories is based on the fact that dreams are narrated by informants –...
ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst
August 15, 2023
Wendy Fidao Ryan
Education
Indigenous Religious Traditions
August 4, 2023
Pablo Wright
1 citation
I adapt Michel Foucault’s notion of technologies of the self to carry out a comparative analysis of two ethnographic cases of contemporary South American shamanisms. In these cases, their cosmological and ritual frameworks display ontological thresholds acceded through specific technologies of the self that contest current assumptions about both the Christian and the scientific hegemonic...
Mongolian Diaspora Journal of Mongolian History and Culture
August 1, 2023
Munkhtsetseg Burged
1 citation
Abstract We aim to study the tuvan shamansm and to reveal its specific features of shamanism of the Tuvan ethnic group in Mongolia and collected materials for our study during field work by interviewing, taking pictures, video and audio records. As an expected result of our study, we come to gain essential knowledge and records on ethnolinguistic, cultural issues, customs, and current status of...
University of California Press eBooks
July 28, 2023
Robert Spott, A. L. Kroeber
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