Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
December 26, 2016
Kathleen Lowrey
In this essay I describe what I have seen elapse over twenty years in the lives (and sometimes deaths) of two shamans and their respective wives in Isoso, an indigenous community of Guarani-speaking people in the Bolivian Chaco. These shamans’ two different kinds of shamanic practice, their two different sorts of marriage, and the two different life-trajectories of their wives resonate with the...
December 25, 2016
Eugenia Roussou
Based on anthropological fieldwork in Lisbon, Portugal and Athens, Greece, this article presents a comparative account of New Age spirituality in southern Europe, a geographical and socio-cultural area where studies of the New Age phenomenon are scarce to find. It will be shown how this recent turn to "new spirituality” leads to a transformation of everyday religiosity and to a new form of...
Frontiers in Psychology
December 22, 2016
José Felipe Rodriguez de Sá, Sérgio Arthuro Mota-Rolim
Sleep paralysis (SP) is a dissociative state that occurs mainly during awakening. SP is characterized by altered motor, perceptual, emotional and cognitive functions, such as inability to perform voluntary movements, visual hallucinations, feelings of chest pressure, delusions about a frightening presence and, in some cases, fear of impending death. Most people experience SP rarely, but...
Planta Medica
December 14, 2016
Sylvian Cretton, PM Allard, I Garcia-Gomez et al.
Indigenous groups of the Amazonian rainforest have used a vast array of poisons and psychoactive drugs from plant origin for centuries. There is a great variety of different species used and each group has their own recipes to prepare plant mixtures [1]. Arrow poisons are made of alkaloids extracted mainly from the Menispermaceae ( Chondrodendron spp.), as well as the Loganiaceae ( Strychnos...
Scholarly Notes of Komsomolsk-na-Amure State Technical University
December 5, 2016
Tatyana Knyazkina
Аннотация.Традиционные медицинские знания коренных народов Камчатки являются культурноисторическим наследием северо-востока нашей страны.Основным носителем этих знаний во второй половине XIX -начале ХХ вв.выступал шаман.Главной функцией шамана коренных народов Камчатки являлось врачевание.В основе шаманских практик лежали анимистические представления о причинах болезни, процессе лечения, мерах...
Hiperboreea Journal of History
December 1, 2016
Şerban George Paul Drugaş
Abstract In order to write about the significance of the name of Zalmoxis in the Dacian language and religion, I begin with the displaying of the sources. Afterwards, there are presented three debates, about: (1) the relation between Zalmoxis and Pythagoras, showing that the philosopher was definitely influenced by the Thraco-Dacian beliefs which were also present in Zamolxianism; (2)...
Asian Traditions of Meditation
October 31, 2016
Halvor Eifring
This essay defines meditation as an “attention-based technique for inner transformation”. This generic definition establishes a common point of reference for the cross-cultural study of meditation, and it serves as a basis for discussing cross-cultural issues relating to the foci and modes of meditative attention, the attitudes toward the technical nature of meditation, and the relation between...
Asian Traditions of Meditation
October 31, 2016
Geoffrey Samuel
1 citation
The central aim of Tantric practice in Tibetan Buddhism is enlightenment, but the same techniques are also used to attain good health and a long life. The image of the Tantric deity and the surrounding mandala enables the imaginative recreation of a universe in which body-mind and wider environment are connected. Along with mantra recitation, secret breathing techniques, sometimes sexualized...
Psychotropes
October 25, 2016
Jean-Charles Bernard
5 citations
La boisson amazonienne ayahuasca génère de profonds états modifiés de conscience et s’ingère “traditionnellement” lors de rituels dans un but précis : apprentissage, guérison, divination... Le sens de l’expérience est consubstantiel au rituel dans la culture chamanique où l’accès au “monde-autre” appartient au champ des possibles. La globalisation de cette boisson a vu naître de nouveaux...
October 24, 2016
M. Balzer
To honor the broad ranging legacy of Åke Hultkranz, this article focuses on the changing social and political ramifications of indigenous people’s spiritual revitalization in Siberia. My approach balances Hultkrantz’s sensitivity to commonalities of shamanism throughout the circumpolar North with attention to more specific aspects of shamanistic practices and beliefs in Far Eastern Siberia,...