Religions
May 16, 2023
Minna Sa
The restoration and reconstruction of Daur shamanism is classical and representative of the revival of shamanism in contemporary China. The case study of the Daur shamanic oboo ritual in this paper discusses the connotation and classification of oboo. Through a brief description of the main process of the ceremony, the shaman spirits, and the main contents of the divine songs, this paper...
Religions
April 5, 2023
Xiaoshuang Liu
4 citations
Shamanic culture, which adheres to the worldview of connecting earth and heaven, has been marginalized in the discourse of the modern material world and separated from mainstream society. However, with the increase in personal problems in civil society and the rise of regional cultural identity since the reform and opening up in China, shamanic practitioners have again become active. Adapting...
Religions
April 4, 2023
Feng Qu
4 citations
Social trends and historical contexts have popularized Eliade’s trance model in shamanism studies and have contributed to a famous academic debate. A case study on Manchu shamanism conducted in this article shows that a Manchu shaman functions primarily as a sacrificial specialist rather than a mental state adept. Three types of Manchu shamanism—court shamanism, clan shamanism, and wild...
Asian Ethnicity
March 20, 2023
Aurore Dumont
ABSTRACT This contribution explores the ways the different ‘minority’ groups inhabiting the Chinese side of the Sino-Russo-Mongolian borderland have negotiated their ethnic and clan belonging through the construction and worship of sacred cairns (oboo) and shamanic burial sites (shindan) throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Following the emic representation of oboo and shindan...
March 20, 2023
Tatiana Bulgakova
Based on the field material collected among the Nanai people over more than 35 years of study, the author of this chapter presents the emic point of view of the Nanai shamans on the changes that have occurred in their shamanic practices over the past decades. Focusing on a specific part of the Nanai region within the Khabarovsk territory, this piece discusses the local focalization of shamanic...
Vestnik arheologii, antropologii i ètnografii
March 9, 2023
Alexey V. Malinov
The paper is dedicated to Andrey Viktorovich Anokhin, a renowned scholar of shamanism of the Turkic peoples of Siberia. The paper precedes publication of A.V. Anokhin's letter to ethnographer Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg discovered in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of RAS. The main subject of the letter is female characters-deities in Altai shamanism, with whom Kam enters into an...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
February 15, 2023
A. Navarro
This work aims to apply the theories of new materialities to the study of the material culture of the Formoso stilt village, a pre-colonial settlement from the ninth–tenth centuries ad, located in the Baixada Maranhense. Appliqués of the pottery bowls at this archaeological site present cosmological information regarding the transformation or metamorphosis of bodies, aspects that are fertile...
International Journal of Current Science Research and Review
February 9, 2023
Teguh Pratama Aditya
Shamanism is an indigenous Korean faith that incorporates various beliefs and practices influenced by native Korean Buddhism and Taoism. In Korean, shamanism is called mu (무) and practitioners are called mudang (무당). The function of the mudang is usually held by women who make contact (liaison) between gods and humans. Shamans perform gut ceremonies or offerings to perform healing, bring good...
Documenta Praehistorica
January 18, 2023
Mihály Hoppál
3 citations
Many misconceptions have been associated with shamanism. Recent studies, however, show a way to reinterpret basic concepts concerning shamanism. New field data from ethnology/anthropology, and studies on cognitive evolution have provided new results to enable a reconstruction of some mechanisms which contributed to early developments in the social life and intellectual history of prehistoric...
ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА
January 2, 2023
Гомбоев, Баир Цыремпилович
Статья посвящена известному традиционному шаманскому культу одного из духов - хозяев реки Лены у качугских бурят - Ажирай бүхэ (Ажирай-силач), получившему наибольшее распространение в конце XIX - середине XX в. Данный культ широко известен среди бурят - у представителей эхиритского племени и других этнических групп Байкальского региона. В статье предпринята попытка анализа ритуально-обрядовой...