Journal of Management for Global Sustainability
June 30, 2016
Sandra A. Waddock
In a world greatly in need of healing, today’s leaders acting as shamans could potentially bring the shaman’s ancient wisdom to the effort to create a more sustainable, just, and equitable world. Today’s shamanic leaders undertake the same roles as the traditional shaman: healing, connecting, and sensemaking in the service of a better world. From a leadership perspective, the shaman’s work is...
Historical and social-educational ideas
June 29, 2016
Сергей Иванович Драган
Since the late XX - early XXI century social anthropologists in the Amazon Basin have been increasingly focusing not only on the functioning of ethnomedicine in the indigenous cultures as such but also on the transformations of healing traditions. Caused by intercultural contacts, these transformations have intensified in the course of the above-mentioned period and have been associated with...
Temenos
June 1, 2016
V. Anttonen
Letters, between 2002 and 2009. Siikala was one of the world's leading scholars of shamanism, narrative traditions, and mythic landscapes among the indigenous peoples of Northern Eurasia.From the 1960s her career charted the course opened by Professors Martti Haavio and Lauri Honko.She adopted an approach to research in which conceptual frameworks developed in the fields of folklore,...
Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion: Plant Life in South Asian Traditions
June 1, 2016
Stefano Beggiora
Stefano Beggiora presents his extensive fieldwork among the Lanjia Saoras in the Rayagada district of southern Odisha. In particular, he discusses the ritual use of local palm wine (toddy) extracted primarily from the jaggery palm (Caryota urens L.). The custom of drinking this fermented beverage is a characteristic feature of the tribal culture of this region. Besides its social aspect, toddy...
NeuroQuantology
May 24, 2016
Kaleb R. Smith
1 citation
The ritualistic use of the ancient psychoactive sacrament teonanacatl, or “The Flesh of God,” represents an integral aspect of pre-colonial Mesoamerican culture and continues, in various syncretic forms, to this day. Providing a brief history of various tribes of Mexico known to utilize Psilocibe species within a shamanic context, focusing primarily on the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, this paper...
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
April 21, 2016
Roy Moodley
Immigrant and ethnic minority groups have been accessing and practicing traditional healing since the days of slavery and colonialism, using healing practices such as animism, Ayurveda, Christian Pentecostal, Espiritismo, Maat, Orisha, Santeria, shamanism, Sidda, Spiritual Baptist, Voodoo, and many others to support their physical and mental health and well‐being. Research and practice in these...
April 8, 2016
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
5 citations
Shamanic practices continue to be carried out among many indigenous peoples in both rural and urban areas. This article deals with young Indians aged between 14 and 24 in Brazilian Amazonia and the social networks created by collective shamanic rituals. Specifically, it focuses on the ritualistic use of ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi), a hallucinogenic concoction, among the Manchineri living...
International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
March 16, 2016
Vera Lucia Moura, Donald Moss
Shamanic practices frequently create hypnotic-like states, with altered states of consciousness, heightened suggestibility, and a perception of an abundance of meaning in everyday events. Jaguar medicine (JM) is a form of shamanic healing with roots in the indigenous cultures of South and Central America. Recent years have seen increasing interest in translating shamanic practices for use in...
Calle 14: Revista de Investigación en el Campo del Arte
March 7, 2016
Mario Madroñero Morillo
La presente entrevista con Kuahtli Vásquez, médico peyotero de ascendencia mexica, refiere,en primera instancia, las experiencias de aprendizaje del médico tradicional y su relacióncon el contexto político de los indígenas en el norte de México. Luego introduce a otromédico tradicional, esta vez del Putumayo, en busca de la medicina del yagé o ayahuasca,y lo que implica el encuentro entre...
March 3, 2016
Geoffrey Samuel
Healing, which I use in this chapter as a generic term for practices intended to relieve pain, restore damage or deterioration, or assist in the attainment of the best possible functioning of the human organism (Alter 1999), has been a major preoccupation within virtually all societies studied by anthropologists. Yet while practices and ideas concerning healing have been noted from the early...