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Shamanism research published in 2023

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What does Siberian Shamanism do for the Academic Study of Religion?

Implicit Religion July 20, 2023 Liudmila Nikanorova

This article will problematize shamanism as an analytical category and challenge it through a critical reading of scholarship about the area that has attracted scholars and travelers in search of Siberian shamanism— Sakha Sire [Sakha: ‘Sakha Land’], currently known as the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. The term ‘shaman’ entered European and then global imaginations and vocabularies through the...

Shamanic Healing or Scientific Treatment?—Transformation of Khorchin Mongolian Bone-Setting in China

Religions July 14, 2023 Gencang Meng 2 citations

This paper, taking the medical practice of Khorchin Mongolian bone-setting as an example, examines the conflict and connection between religious healing and modern (or Western) medicine as well as the transformation of shamanisms in the discourse of nation-state building in China, and argues that the relationship between shamanic healing and modern medicine is not a binary opposition. Khorchin...

The Material World of Shamanic Attributes in the Light of the Theory of Shamanism (on the Example of the Collections of Russian Museums)

Kunstkamera July 10, 2023 T. Sem

The article is devoted to the problems of shamanism associated with shamanic visions of the real world on the example of shamanic paraphernalia from the collection of museum collections in Russia. The author proceeds from the premise that shamanism is a holistic (holotropic) vision of the world, reflecting the concept of the connection between man and nature, man and the Universe. Russian...

Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things

Oxford Review of Education July 4, 2023 Ricardo Nemirovsky, Don Duprez 2 citations

This study examines the entanglement of affects that occurred during a short episode at a science museum. The episode involved a small number of children and a teacher who had come to the museum in the context of a school field trip. It took place inside an exhibit called ‘Hmong House’, which reproduced various components of a traditional house of the Hmong people. A key aim of this paper is to...

THE STRUGGLE OF THE SOVIET AUTHORITIES AGAINST SHAMANISM AND «WANDERING MULLAHS»

Edu E-History kz July 3, 2023

Құрылтайшысы және баспагері: Қазақстан Республикасы Ғылым және жоғары білім министрлігі Ғылым комитеті Ш.Ш.Уәлиханов атындағы Тарих және этнология институты ШЖҚ РМК Ғылыми журнал Қазақстан Республикасы Инвестициялар және даму министрлігінің Байланыс, ақпараттандыру және ақпарат комитетінде 2014 ж. 29 қазанында тіркелген.Тіркеу нөмірі № 14602-ИА.Жылына 4 рет жарияланады (электронды...

Decolonial Re-existence through Animist Realism: Water Spirits and Shamanic Mantras in Janice Pariat's Boats on Land

eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics July 3, 2023 Sampda Swaraj, Binod Mishra 5 citations

Colonialism's deleterious impact on Indigenous epistemologies has engendered an exigent concern in the project of decoloniality, calling for a re-existence of marginalized cosmovisions. To accomplish this, an epistemic delinking from the paradigm of Eurocentric discourses is imperative in the interest of a comprehensive appreciation and recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems. In this vein,...

The identity and infinite diversity of the shamanic condition

Quaestiones Romanicae June 9, 2023 Universitatea de Vest Din Timișoara, Lavinia Răducan

Identitatea şi infinita diversitate a condiţiei şamanice "Avem artă pentru ca adevărul să nu ne ucidă."(Friedrich Nietzsche, 2018.Nașterea tragediei.)Abstract: (The identity and infinite diversity of the shamanic condition) The ancestral spiritual experience, shamanism has always represented a fascination for the human being.Holder of a complex spiritual universe, the shaman is the master of...

Ethnomedicinal and Shamanism in Bhotia Tribes

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Trends June 1, 2023 Nilesh Pant

This systematic review examines the ethnomedicinal and traditional healing practices of the Bhotia tribes in Uttarakhand's trans-Himalayan valleys. It synthesizes knowledge on plant-based therapies commonly used to treat ailments such as gastrointestinal, respiratory, and musculoskeletal conditions, along with the ritual role of shamans (dangaris) as healers and spiritual mediators. The review...

Implicit States of Connectivity in the Clinical Practice of Jungian Psychoanalysis and Andean Shamanism.

Journal of Analytical Psychology June 2023 Deborah Bryon

This paper will describe the spiritual states of "oneness" experienced by Andean shamans in relation to oceanic states in early infancy and working with trauma in Jungian analysis. The author's work exploring implicit energetic experience with Andean shamans will be referenced with comparisons made to depth psychology, in both theory and in practice. Definitions of Q'echua terms describing...

Spirit Mediumship and Mental Health: Therapeutic Self-transformation Among Dang-kis in Singapore.

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry June 1, 2023 Boon-Ooi Lee, Laurence J. Kirmayer 7 citations

While some early studies suggested that spirit mediums were psychiatrically ill individuals who found a culturally sanctioned role, subsequent work has found that they are generally in good physical and mental health. While the calling to be a healer often involves an initiatory illness, practitioners go on to play demanding social roles, suggesting that involvement in mediumship may be...

Deities System and Ritual Practice: A Case Study of the Daur Shamanic Oboo Ritual

Religions May 16, 2023 Minna Sa

The restoration and reconstruction of Daur shamanism is classical and representative of the revival of shamanism in contemporary China. The case study of the Daur shamanic oboo ritual in this paper discusses the connotation and classification of oboo. Through a brief description of the main process of the ceremony, the shaman spirits, and the main contents of the divine songs, this paper...

Shamanic Culture’s Reconnection of Earth and Heaven (Xu Ditiantong) in the New Era in China: The Dialectical Relationship between Material Civilization and Cultural Intimacy

Religions April 5, 2023 Xiaoshuang Liu 4 citations

Shamanic culture, which adheres to the worldview of connecting earth and heaven, has been marginalized in the discourse of the modern material world and separated from mainstream society. However, with the increase in personal problems in civil society and the rise of regional cultural identity since the reform and opening up in China, shamanic practitioners have again become active. Adapting...

Deconstruction of the Trance Model: Historical, Ethnographic, and Contextual Studies of Manchu Shamanism

Religions April 4, 2023 Feng Qu 4 citations

Social trends and historical contexts have popularized Eliade’s trance model in shamanism studies and have contributed to a famous academic debate. A case study on Manchu shamanism conducted in this article shows that a Manchu shaman functions primarily as a sacrificial specialist rather than a mental state adept. Three types of Manchu shamanism—court shamanism, clan shamanism, and wild...

Sacred land cairns and shamanic burial sites on the Sino-Russo-Mongolian borderlands

Asian Ethnicity March 20, 2023 Aurore Dumont

ABSTRACT This contribution explores the ways the different ‘minority’ groups inhabiting the Chinese side of the Sino-Russo-Mongolian borderland have negotiated their ethnic and clan belonging through the construction and worship of sacred cairns (oboo) and shamanic burial sites (shindan) throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Following the emic representation of oboo and shindan...

Nanai post-Soviet Shamanism

March 20, 2023 Tatiana Bulgakova

Based on the field material collected among the Nanai people over more than 35 years of study, the author of this chapter presents the emic point of view of the Nanai shamans on the changes that have occurred in their shamanic practices over the past decades. Focusing on a specific part of the Nanai region within the Khabarovsk territory, this piece discusses the local focalization of shamanic...

A.B. Anokhin's letter “On shamanism among the Altai tribes”

Vestnik arheologii, antropologii i ètnografii March 9, 2023 Alexey V. Malinov

The paper is dedicated to Andrey Viktorovich Anokhin, a renowned scholar of shamanism of the Turkic peoples of Siberia. The paper precedes publication of A.V. Anokhin's letter to ethnographer Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg discovered in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of RAS. The main subject of the letter is female characters-deities in Altai shamanism, with whom Kam enters into an...

Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia

Cambridge Archaeological Journal February 15, 2023 A. Navarro

This work aims to apply the theories of new materialities to the study of the material culture of the Formoso stilt village, a pre-colonial settlement from the ninth–tenth centuries ad, located in the Baixada Maranhense. Appliqués of the pottery bowls at this archaeological site present cosmological information regarding the transformation or metamorphosis of bodies, aspects that are fertile...

Impact the Effect of Shamanism in Modern Society in South Korea

International Journal of Current Science Research and Review February 9, 2023 Teguh Pratama Aditya

Shamanism is an indigenous Korean faith that incorporates various beliefs and practices influenced by native Korean Buddhism and Taoism. In Korean, shamanism is called mu (무) and practitioners are called mudang (무당). The function of the mudang is usually held by women who make contact (liaison) between gods and humans. Shamans perform gut ceremonies or offerings to perform healing, bring good...

Shamanic and\or cognitive evolution

Documenta Praehistorica January 18, 2023 Mihály Hoppál 3 citations

Many misconceptions have been associated with shamanism. Recent studies, however, show a way to reinterpret basic concepts concerning shamanism. New field data from ethnology/anthropology, and studies on cognitive evolution have provided new results to enable a reconstruction of some mechanisms which contributed to early developments in the social life and intellectual history of prehistoric...

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Shamanic Traditions of the Kachug Buryats (The Cult of Azhirai Buhe)

ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА January 2, 2023 Гомбоев, Баир Цыремпилович

Статья посвящена известному традиционному шаманскому культу одного из духов - хозяев реки Лены у качугских бурят - Ажирай бүхэ (Ажирай-силач), получившему наибольшее распространение в конце XIX - середине XX в. Данный культ широко известен среди бурят - у представителей эхиритского племени и других этнических групп Байкальского региона. В статье предпринята попытка анализа ритуально-обрядовой...