IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
September 16, 2018
Nigel H. Foxcroft
In tracing the evolution of the cosmic consciousness of Malcolm Lowry (1909–57), a prominent English Modernist novelist and poet, this paper provides a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural, intercontinental framework for analysing the influence of cultures and civilizations — both east and west—upon national identities and value-systems, expressed through literature. In its investigation of the...
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
September 5, 2018
Chris Low
Cosmology is one of the three key domains used by anthropologists to define hunter‐gatherers. Although there is much variety found among hunter‐gatherers, broad continuities are typically envisaged across a range of cosmological themes including animism, shamanism, double creation, sacred geographies, tricksters, and worldview. Since the 1980s, researchers have problematized many of these...
Peyote Effect
September 4, 2018
Alexander S. Dawson
After several decades in which scientists produced a slow trickle of scholarship on the potential uses of peyote/mescaline for mental health afflictions, in the 1950s this genre of psychiatric research into hallucinogens expanded significantly. Mexico remained a relative backwater for this type of work until 1957, when Dr. José Rodríguez at the Sanatorio Psiquiatrico Santiago Ramírez Moreno in...
Peyote Effect
September 4, 2018
Alexander S. Dawson
This chapter turns to the white shamans. This is not a term of endearment, as it is often linked to notions of charlatanism, foolishness, and more lately, cultural appropriation. Beginning with Carlos Castaneda, several generations of white shamans have deployed images tied to Wixárika peyotism in order to authorize their special wisdom. Resisting the temptation to dismiss them in a wholesale...
Dance Movement & Spiritualities
September 1, 2018
Hillary Keeney, Bradford P. Keeney
3 citations
‘Ecstasy’, long considered a primary experiential marker of shamanism, has been conflated with Mircea Eliade’s description of ‘cataleptic trance’ and the subsequent notion of an ‘altered state of consciousness’. More recent scholarship contests this fixation on the mental state of shamanism, whether in the Arctic or its presumed geographical migration elsewhere. We retrieve the more common...
Monatshefte
September 1, 2018
Suzuko Mousel Knott
This article analyzes the role of Yoko Tawada's representation of shamanic practices in her literary essays and prose fiction as an extension of her concept of a "Schrift der Objekte," first developed in her published dissertation Spielzeug und Sprachmagie. By turning the author's poetological analysis of magic in European literature on her own works, we begin to understand how the ideas she...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
September 1, 2018
Harry T. Hunt
This is the second part of a consideration of the later Wilhelm Reich as anticipating a future planetary-wide “New Age” form of this-worldly spirituality in ways overlapping with figures from the same era of Western crisis from the 1930s through the 1950s, including Jung, Toynbee, Bergson, Heidegger, Teilhard de Chardin, and Simone Weil. Where the first part of this treatment of Reich as...
한국고대사연구
August 30, 2018
Jung-Youn Woo
경주 황남동 석곽묘군에서 집중적으로 출토된 신라 부착토우의 공간적 편재성(偏在性)과 부착토우 제작자의 성격을 이해하기 위해 최근에 조사, 보고된 경주 쪽샘유적 출토품을 포함하여 현재까지 보고된 경주지역 신라 부착토우의 표현 대상과 방식을 살펴보았다. 이를 통해 지금까지 보고된 부착토우는 제작 방식에서는 과감한 과장과 생략 기법을 공유하면서도 그 표현 소재는 일정한 레퍼토리로 한정되는데 그러한 소재의 거의 대부분이 황남동 석곽묘군 출토품에서 확인됨을 알 수 있었다. 이러 한 부착토우의 공간적 편재성과 표현 방식의 공통성 및 소재의 한정성을 설명하기 위해 샤머니즘과 ASC 및 미니어처에 대한 비교문화적인 연구 성과를 검토하였다. 그에 기반하여 신라의 부착토우는 신라인의 일상이나 희로애락, 또는 재생,...
Religion
August 22, 2018
Konsta Kaikkonen
7 citations
This article discusses how the Sami word noaidi and the word for the noaidi’s trade (noaidevuohta) have been translated in missionary texts and academic research. It traces context-related translations of these Sami concepts: first by clergy into terms connoted to ‘witchcraft’ and ‘sorcery’, then by scholars into the technical terms ‘shaman’ and ‘shamanism’, and finally by contemporary scholars...
August 6, 2018
Manvir Singh
16 citations
In nearly every documented society, people believe that some misfortunes are attributable to malicious group mates employing magic or supernatural powers. Here I report cross-cultural patterns in these beliefs and propose a theory to explain them. Using the newly-created Survey of Mystical Harm, I show that several conceptions of evil, mystical practitioners recur around the world, including...