Al-Albab
April 12, 2022
Kristianus Kristianus
3 citations
The Dayak Shamans of Western Kalimantan of Borneo mediate between people and the Makhluk halus or invisible beings. The Makhluk halus who have their own well-defined roles, live in the sky, earth, water and other places, with similar needs as the humans, and the relations between humans and spirits in the context of traditional beliefs are inseparable. Interestingly, these beliefs are common to...
ACS Omega
April 1, 2022
Luisina Castelli Rodríguez, Andrés Mariño López, Guillermo Moyna et al.
28 citations
Ayahuasca is a psychedelic beverage originally from the Amazon rainforest used in different shamanic settings for medicinal, spiritual, and cultural purposes. It is prepared by boiling in water an admixture of the Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi, which is a source of β-carboline alkaloids, with plants containing N,N-dimethyltryptamine, usually Psychotria viridis. While previous studies have...
Southeastern Archaeology
March 13, 2022
J. Blitz, D. Bodoh
ABSTRACT A previously unreported Depression-era excavation at the Walling II site on the Tennessee River, Alabama, revealed a context that may provide insight into Mississippian shamanic ritual. Mound A, a low earthen mound, was erected over the remains of a small circular structure, followed by the burial of a single person accompanied by a human effigy smoking pipe, human calvaria, and other...
Culture & Psychology
March 3, 2022
Fatemeh Saki, A. Ahmadi
7 citations
Although shamanism dates back to the prehistoric era, reminiscence of its beliefs and representation of them could still be seen in Central Asian communities and the Turkmens of Iran. Spirit possession, fairy possession and Porkhani are all terms used to describe a severe psychotic disorder; this mental disorder can be found in the Turkmen culture in Iran and Central Asia and is commonly...
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
March 1, 2022
Christian Tym
5 citations
The critique of belief as an analytical tool in anthropology has overshadowed belief as an ethnographic reality. This article short-circuits these debates over the politics of belief by elaborating ethnographically the indigenous use of the concept—literally the Spanish “creer” and “creencia”—in Shuar territory in post-conversion Amazonia. It shows that contemporary Shuar “belief” supersedes...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2022
Roman Galovič
AbstractIt has long been argued that one of the main appeals of contemporary Euro‐American shamanism lies in its ability to reenchant the world in the disenchanted present. As observed during field research among shamans in the Czech Republic and based on an analysis of their techniques and discourse, the source of this reenchantment lies in journeys to non‐ordinary reality, internally...
Al-Adyan Jurnal Studi Lintas Agama
February 14, 2022
Aiqing Wang
1 citation
The 2010s has witnessed the visibility of literature based on China’s Northeast (Dongbei), exemplified by literary works composed by Zheng Zhi, Ban Yu and Shuang Xuetao, viz. the ‘three masters of Dongbei Renaissance’. In a 2020 novella anthology, Zheng Zhi expatiates upon a veritable cornucopia of representations of folk religion (aka popular religion) and established religions via depictions...
February 14, 2022
Daniel Perkins, Simon Ruffell, Kimberley Day et al.
1 citation
preprint
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive Amazonian plant brew. It is usually made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, which contains three primary harmala alkaloids, along with the leaves of Psychotria viridis in which the potent psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is found. DMT-harmaloid concoctions have gained popularity in recent years, due to growing anecdotal and scientific reports of therapeutic...
January 28, 2022
Lisetta Lovett, Alannah Tomkins
The newspapers were full of details about her untimely death. A court case heard that she had died of an overdose of cocaine that had been supplied by her dress designer and partner Reggie de Veulle and that she had been using cocaine and opium heavily for some time. In the first decades of the twentieth century, cocaine sniffing and opium parties were fashionable in literary and theatrical...
Studia Humanistyczne/Studia Humanistyczne AGH
2022
Richárd Papp
1 citation
The study deals with the concepts of Jim Morrison's art from the perspective of the myths surrounding Morrison, especially his "self-made shamanism".Morrison created a "personal shamanism" that basically determined his art and image.The study explores how and why Morrison created his own myth and built shamanistic elements into his songs, poems, and performances.The paper also touches on the...