Rock Art Research
November 1, 2010
Margaret Bullen
1 citation
The ‘Three Stages of Trance’ has become a leitmotif in discussions on the origin of rock art imagery. Here I challenge the validity of this paradigm including the algorithm that has developed whereby geometric motifs equate to entoptic imagery that equates to first stage of trance and therefore indicates shamanism. New approaches to the study of consciousness and brain activity are changing...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
September 15, 2010
Randall S. Sexton, Ellen Anne Buljo Stabbursvik
17 citations
There is a special emphasis today on integrating traditional healing within health services. However, most areas in which there is a system of traditional healing have undergone colonization and a number of pressures suppressing tradition for hundreds of years. The question arises as to how one can understand today's tradition in light of earlier traditions. This article is based on material...
Boletín de Antropología
September 11, 2010
Dagmar Schweitzer de Palacios
Durante una investigación de campo sobre las relaciones transculturales en el chamanismo de la región nor-andina,1 realizada entre marzo de 2000 y junio de 2001 en el Cantón Cotacachi, provincia de Imbabura, observé este tipo de folklorización y comercialización de los yachac. En un primer momento, tras los primeros contactos en tiempos de globalización y medios de comunicación, parecía que los...
Antiquity
September 1, 2010
S. Mitchell, Neil Price, R. Hutton et al.
Archaeology, consistently warned off religion by wise old heads, here rushes deeper into the thicket to tackle the thorny topic of ancient witchcraft. The occasion was a seminar at Harvard organised by Stephen Mitchell and Neil Price to mark the twentieth anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's influential book on the connections between witches and shamanism – and by implication the possible...
Anthropology of Consciousness
August 23, 2010
Janine Tatjana Schmid, Henrik Jungaberle, Rolf Verres
25 citations
ABSTRACT Ayahuasca is a psychoactive beverage that is mostly used in ritualized settings (Santo Daime rituals, neo‐shamanic rituals, and even do‐it‐yourself‐rituals). It is a common practice in the investigated socio‐cultural field to call these settings “healing rituals.” For this study, 15 people who underwent ayahuasca (self‐)therapy for a particular disease like chronic pain, cancer,...
Journal of Northern Studies
July 1, 2010
Thomas A. DuBois
4 citations
Johan Turi’s Sámi deavsttat/Lappish Texts (1918–1919) is examined as a source of information regarding early twentieth-century Sami healing methods and hierarchies of medical resort. Turi’s account of traditional and personal healing experiences in the Čohkkeras/Jukkasjärvi district reflects complex processes of intercultural exchange and hybridization, in which Sami families availed themselves...
Birth Defects Research Part B Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology
May 11, 2010
Carolina Dizioli Rodrigues de Oliveira, Camila Queiroz Moreira, Lílian Rose Marques de Sá et al.
44 citations
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Ayahuasca is a psychotropic plant beverage initially used by shamans throughout the Amazon region during traditional religious cult. In recent years, ayahuasca has also been used in ceremonies of a number of modern syncretic religious groups, including pregnant women. However, no documented study has been performed to evaluate the risk of developmental toxicity of...
Oxford University Press eBooks
May 5, 2010
Matt J. Rossano
Chapter 7 argues that religion was a cultural adaptation. In its earliest form, religion was shamanism. A primary focus of shamanistic rituals was to bring about community and individual healing. Shamanism accomplished this by creating conditions that made placebo healing likely to occur. Shamanism brought together three important factors known to enhance placebo effects: confidence in healing...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2010
Mark A. Schroll
37 citations
ABSTRACT Calling for an expanded framework of EuroAmerican science's methodology whose perspective acknowledges both quantitative/etic and qualitative/emic orientations is the broad focus of this article. More specifically this article argues that our understanding of shamanic and/or other related states of consciousness has been greatly enhanced through ethnographic methods, yet in their...
February 16, 2010
Margaret Stutley
Shamanism is one of the earliest and farthest-reaching magical and religious traditions, vestiges of which still underlie the major religious faiths of the modern world. The function of the shaman is to show his or her people the unseen powers behind the mere appearances of nature, as experienced through intuition, in trance states, or during ecstatic mystical visions. Shamans possess healing...