International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
September 1, 2019
R. Zegarra-Parodi, J. Draper-Rodi, J. Haxton et al.
Abstract The purpose of the current commentary was to document how Native American healing traditions may have influenced A.T. Still in the development of osteopathic principles and how current neuroscience models describing shamanic healing practices of Native American healers may have applicability for osteopathic manipulative practices. Recent materials from the Museum of Osteopathic...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
August 1, 2019
Melissa S. Cradic
Human use of psychoactive substances has a long and complex history that has been documented in the archaeological record from as early as the Neolithic period (Guerra-Doce 2015). This exciting new field of archaeological research has potential to shed light on many approaches to human behaviours in the past, particularly those focused on ritual practice, phenomenology and human–environment...
Bulletin de l’Institut français d’études andines
August 1, 2019
Sébastien Baud
3 citations
In this paper, I address the processes of constructing person and the acquisition of a new soul in the Awajun society (Jivaro linguistic family, Peru). This is based on psychotropic plants —tobacco, angel trumpet, ayahuasca and chagropanga—, the words and discourses about them as well as the implicit logics. On the other hand, it involves shamanism and vision quest. We will realize that these...
Aceno - Revista de Antropologia do Centro-Oeste
July 7, 2019
Wagner Lins Lira
1 citation
Este ensaio tem a finalidade de refletir sobre fenômenos culturais e etnológicos condizentes aos saberes e perspectivas ameríndios acerca do uso de substâncias enteogénicas, tangencialmente, da bebida ayahuasca, cujas matrizes repousam em contextos indigenistas, desde tempos pré-colombianos. Igualmente, visamos discorrer sobre o curandeirismo vegetalista em áreas rurais e urbanas fenômeno, onde...
July 5, 2019
Manvir Singh, Julia Henrich
preprint
Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this self-denial promotes perceptions of credibility, invoking such associations in explanations of shamanism and prosocial religion, 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 three...
July 3, 2019
Esther Eidinow
Lewis, I. M. (2003). Ecstatic religion: A study of shamanism and spirit possession. London: Routledge. Littlewood, R. (2006). Pathology and identity: The work of mother earth in Trinidad (Vol. 90). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rouget, G. (1985). Music and trance: A theory of the relations between music and possession. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Samuel, G. (1990). Mind, body...
Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
June 26, 2019
V. A. Burnakov, A. A. Burnakov
On the basis of folklore and ethnographic data, some of which are introduced in this article, the Khakass mytho-ritual complex relating to the snake is reconstructed. It is demonstrated that these beliefs were central to the traditional Khakass worldview, and the snake was endowed with elaborate symbolic meanings. It was a sacred animal, associated with ideas of life and death. It played a key...
Revista do Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
June 6, 2019
Maicon Fecher, Elizabeth Pissolato
This paper approaches the relationship that has been built since 2000’s among ayahuasca Huni Kuin masters (Western Amazon) — singers (txanas) or shamans — and locals from Rio de Janeiro city that are interested in the set of knowledges mediated by that and other forest medicines. We briefly follow up the relationship between Huni Kuin indigenous people and ayahuasca religions in Acre 1990’s...
Social Analysis
June 1, 2019
F. Tola
This article focuses on sorcery, revenge, and anti-revenge among the Qom people in Argentina. For them, death is the result of sorcery or a shamanic attack. When a relative dies, the family may decide to avenge him through practices performed on his body. Nonetheless, under specific circumstances relatives decide not to take revenge, performing what I refer to as ‘anti-revenge’. Ethnographic...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
May 29, 2019
Meena Maillart-Garg, Michael Winkelman
21 citations
The essay proposes that entheogenic mushrooms and shamanic experiences are encoded in the Khajuraho Temples of India. Erotic sculptures of Khajuraho have statues with limbs depicted in strange positions, separated from the body or with orientations that are anatomically impossible. These represent dismemberment experiences typical of shamanic and mystical initiation, a phenomenon with...