AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
September 1, 2024
Mally Stelmaszyk, Leonid Sungorkin
This article is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia, Russia, through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai (Indigenous peoples of Siberia, Russia; literally, people of the Earth) sama (shaman), hereafter, shaman, brings together diverse...
SibScript
July 26, 2024
N. V. Tikhomirov
The article describes the social role of shamanism in Yakutia in the 1920s. The newspaper of Autonomous Yakutia served as the main source. The research is the first-of-its-kind attempt to study Yakut shamanism as a socio-cultural phenomenon based on a comprehensive analysis of local mass media. The newspaper described the shamanic practices, people’s attitude, and anti-shamanism measures. The...
Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology
July 18, 2024
О. В. Жук
Рассматриваются мифологические представления тувинцев о шаманских головных уборах. Выявлено, что роль и значение ритуальных шапок магических специалистов, используемых в камланиях, широко трактовались в тувинской среде. В народных толкованиях о шаманских головных уборах нашли отражение главные концепции шаманизма – трехчастное деление мира, представления об избранности шамана, его роли в...
SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF SAYANO-ALTAI
July 8, 2024
О.а. Власова, Е.к. Карелина
В работе проанализированы тексты пяти камланий якутских шаманов двух региональных традиций, посвященных поклонению духу-хозяину воды. Использованы методы сравнительно-сопоставительного, структурносемантического анализа текстовых материалов, записанных И. А. Худяковым во второй половине XIX в. в Верхоянском округе, А. А. Поповым в начале XX в. в Вилюйском округе. Авторы приходят к выводу, что...
Medicine
July 1, 2024
Chukwuka Elendu
59 citations
Retracted
In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, ancient healing traditions cast a profound shadow, offering insights and inspirations that resonate with modern medical practice. This paper explores the enduring influence of shamanic and Hippocratic healing traditions on contemporary healthcare, examining their contributions to holistic health approaches, diagnostic techniques, and ethical standards....
Religio
June 15, 2024
Helena Dyndová
Contemporary shamanism, often referred to as neo-shamanism, is a popular spiritual practice within the modern landscape of non-institutionalized religiosity. This paper explores the relationship between contemporary shamanism and alternative spirituality (formerly also labelled as the New Age) in depth, underlining that contemporary shamanism owes much of its success to its compatibility with...
ISEA2023 PROCEEDINGS
June 6, 2024
Edward A. Shanken
1 citation
SHORT PAPER. Technoshamanism combines traditional shamanic technologies with emerging technologies based in silicon (dry), biology (wet) and hybrid (moist), in the service of healing and sustaining life. This paper explores how contemporary artists pursue expanded forms of consciousness by symbiotically joining technoscientific tools and shamanic techniques.
Institute of History and Culture Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
May 31, 2024
Enjung Lee
This paper aims to propose a feminist reading on the shamanic performativity of the folk tales of ‘princess Bari,’ which Jane Jin Kaisen(b.1980)’s film Community of Parting(2019) use as a central motif. Kaisen is a Danish visual artist who has consistently developed a body of work that draws from her own experience of transnational adoption and consistently gives voice to Korean women who have...
Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
May 27, 2024
Piotr Sobkowiak, Ekaterina Sobkovyak
Abstract A manuscript entitled Ongγod qar-a sakiγus-un teüke sudur bičig orosiba , written in the Classical Mongolian script, was acquired by Henning Haslund-Christensen in the Barga area of the Chakhar province of Inner Mongolia during the Royal Danish Geographical Society’s Central Asian Expedition (1938–1939). The text is currently preserved in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. Scholars who...
The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experiences
May 22, 2024
Michael James Winkelman
Abstract Shamanism is a transcultural concept for understanding roles of ritual and psychedelics in the prehistoric origins of religiosity. The origins of religiosity are revealed by parallels of shamanic and chimpanzee collective ritualizations involving group chorusing and drumming with dramatic bipedal displays. This hominid baseline was expanded with mimetic evolution of song, dance and...