Qeios
November 20, 2023
Yemi Atanda
preprint
Shamanism is an animistic religious practice characterized by belief in a metaphysical world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits that can only be understood by shamans. This work examines religious shamanism in the face of modernity to provoke laughter through comedy. While provoking laughter, it unmasks truth; rot, deceit, corruption, and megalomania in a postcolonial site. There are three...
Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review
November 15, 2023
Vasile Albineț
The social functions of ritual are well studied in anthropology, but their psychological and neural basis for reconfiguring the individual self remains less explored. This study focuses on the initiation ritual in Tamang shamanism in Nepal, demonstrating how cultural tools help transform the cognitive and embodied self-narratives of individuals experiencing various biopsychological disorders...
Enigma in Cultural
November 9, 2023
Olivia Risma
Various ethnic groups in Sumatra also possess shamanic traditions that involve traditional rites and the involvement of shamans or individuals with specialized skills in countering black magic. Each of these ethnic groups possesses distinct practices and beliefs. The Batak tribe has diverse ethnic subgroups, including Toba Batak, Karo, Mandailing, and others. Within Batak culture, there exist...
Anthropology of Consciousness
November 8, 2023
Christine S. Vanpool, Laura Lee, Paul Robear et al.
5 citations
Abstract Here, we describe how Casas Grandes Medio period (AD 1200 to 1450) shamanic practices of the North American Southwest used tobacco shamanism, a ritual stance called the Tennessee Diviner (TD) posture, and cultural expectations to generate trance experiences of soul flight and divination. We introduce a conceptual model that holds that specific trance experiences are the emergent result...
The Society Of Korean Oral Literature
September 30, 2023
Hyung Kun Kim
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Oral Literature Society, this study summarizes the research results in the field of shamanic songs over the past period. Shamanic songs are a part of a whole called shamanism. Therefore, we must understand the shamanic research flow within the overall flow of shamanic research, and within that flow, we can discuss the trends,...
Oriental Studies
September 18, 2023
Liudmila S. Dampilova, Evdokia E. Khabunova, Balzira V. Elbikova
Introduction. In the Buryat tradition, healing was a most common function attributed to shamans. The main pragmatic aspect of healing depends on the semiotic component of a ritual, communicative connection with the other world being a key indicative. Healing practices of Turko-Mongolian shamans were distinguished by that rituals were accompanied by spells aimed at propitiating or neutralizing...
Philology. Theory & Practice
August 29, 2023
Maria Danilovna Danchinova
The oral prose of the Buryats includes, along with other genres, stories about shamanic dreams, the uniqueness and originality of which are undeniable. The aim of the research is to determine the theoretical and poetic significance of this genre, the depth of the depiction of the national worldview. The peculiarity of these stories is based on the fact that dreams are narrated by informants –...
ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst
August 15, 2023
Wendy Fidao Ryan
Education
Indigenous Religious Traditions
August 4, 2023
Pablo Wright
1 citation
I adapt Michel Foucault’s notion of technologies of the self to carry out a comparative analysis of two ethnographic cases of contemporary South American shamanisms. In these cases, their cosmological and ritual frameworks display ontological thresholds acceded through specific technologies of the self that contest current assumptions about both the Christian and the scientific hegemonic...
Mongolian Diaspora Journal of Mongolian History and Culture
August 1, 2023
Munkhtsetseg Burged
1 citation
Abstract We aim to study the tuvan shamansm and to reveal its specific features of shamanism of the Tuvan ethnic group in Mongolia and collected materials for our study during field work by interviewing, taking pictures, video and audio records. As an expected result of our study, we come to gain essential knowledge and records on ethnolinguistic, cultural issues, customs, and current status of...