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New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming October 8, 2020 Bruce M. Knauft
The thesis of my paper – evolving out the abstract submitted months ago – is that our lingering ethnocentric reification of “dreaming” as not just distinct from but the opposite of “waking” – dream consciousness versus waking consciousness – elides and occludes much power and value in and across mental states that include dreaming. There is arguably a strong connection if not continuum across...
Revista Peruana de Medicina Integrativa October 6, 2020 Edison Chávez Castillo, Cynthia Chávez Castillo, Jorge Zuquitana Godoyc 2 citations
La ayahuasca es un brebaje psicotrópico con acción serotoninérgica. Las fuentes botánicas más comunes de la ayahuasca son la Banisteriopsiscaapi y la Psychotriaviridis, en la revisión bibliográfica se buscó conocer las propiedades bioquímicas, síntomas y signos que produce esta planta, asimismo, se reconocieron los efectos que produce al ser utilizada como brebaje por los chamanes de la...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2020 Wendy J. Phillips
AbstractIn Curanderismo and other traditional medicine systems, illnesses are understood to have somatic and emotional components and symptoms may be elicited by disruptions in interpersonal relationships between community members. An aspect of ritual interventions involves returning interpersonal relationships to balance and restoring harmonious interactions between members of the community....
TDR: The Drama Review September 1, 2020 Liora Sarfati 1 citation
Korean shamanism ( musok) considers problems of physical, social, and mental health to be a result of supernatural intervention. The unique position of male practitioners who become healers within a female-dominated sphere is especially telling as they perform cross-gender behavior that is perceived as related to homosexuality, which is stigmatized in Korea and often labeled as a “mental...
Český lid June 25, 2020 T. Bužeková
The paper addresses representations of danger in the spiritual sphere in contemporary society in Slovakia by exploring the specific case of neoshamanic groups. This argument is based on Mary Douglas’s theory and the representations of spiritual practices are interpreted in relation to the particular social context. I present the results of ethnographic research conducted in Bratislava. I argue...
Religion, Brain & Behavior June 19, 2020 Michael A. Winkelman
ABSTRACT Empirical cross-cultural research provides a typology of magico-religious practitioners and identifies their relations to social complexity, their selection-function relationships, and reveals their biosocial bases. Different practitioner types and configurations are associated with specific ecological and political dynamics that indicate a cultural evolutionary development. Relations...
Evolutionary Human Sciences June 11, 2020 Manvir Singh, Julia Henrich
Abstract Abstract Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this avoidance influences people's perceptions of leaders’ underlying traits, but few, if any, quantitative data exist testing these claims. Here we show that shamans in a small-scale society observe costly prohibitions and that observers infer cooperativeness, religious belief,...
International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology Revista INFAD de psicología June 9, 2020 Mónica Hinojosa Becerra, M. Paladines, Mónica Maldonado Espinosa 2 citations
Our communication seeks to understand the influence of ancient healing rituals on mental health. We understand mental health as the welfare state that results from the balance between the person and their environment: social, emotional and cultural. This research focuses on the healing rituals with entheogenic substances practiced by the yachag or healers of the Saraguro nationality. The...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies June 1, 2020 M. Winkelman 2 citations
These two volumes bring together two very different eras of psychedelic studies, its early florescence in the 1960s and a current wave reflecting cumulative developments fifty years later. Both are based on conferences sharing the same title given to the book, an open exploration of the potential for modern science and medicine to engage with the pharmacological abundance provided by nature and...
May 27, 2020 R. Willis, K. B. S. Chisanga, H. M. K. Sikazwe et al.
Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of 'spirit' tell us about the nature of human selfhood? To investigate these poorly understood matters, veteran anthropologist, neo-shaman and paranormal healer Roy Willis spent five months in a remote part of northern Zambia exploring human consciousness in a fascinating and sometimes terrifying series of adventures. This...