Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Social Humanitarian Medicobiological Sciences
2023
M.A. Plokhotnyuk, Ya.S. Kryzhanovskaya
The article deals with a “myth” problem of Priamurye as a cross-border territory through the concept of Cosmo-psychologos (by G.D. Gachev). The paper emphasize Verticality/Horizontality dichotomy based on natural landscape of this territory inhabited by local peoples (Ulch, Nanai, Oroch, Udege, Evenks, Evens, Negidals), so that dichotomy can form specific “world image”. The authors cover basic...
Человек и культура
2023
Larisa Khingeeva
Questions of the origin of the shamanic costume constantly remain in the focus of attention of researchers who have studied the phenomenon of shamanism of the Buryats and Mongols. Since material artifacts are the most stable object that has preserved semantic content in a symbolic form. At various times, M. N. Khangalov, Ts. Zh. Zhamtsarano, B. E. Petri, S. V. Ivanov, E. D. Prokofiev, T. M....
Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University Geoarchaeology Ethnology and Anthropology Series
2023
N. B. Dashieva
The article examines the semantics and functions of the deities known in the Buryat shaman pantheon of the Baikal region as “Saitani Burhad” (Saitin gods). The chronological framework of the study covers the period from the last quarter of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. The research is based on historical, ethnographic, ethnolinguistic, folkloristic, mythological and...
The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University Series Political Science and Religion Studies
2023
D. O. Furtsev
The purpose of this article is to review various opinions of Soviet scientists about mental health of shamans. The task of this paper is to analyse a wide range of Soviet sources on shamanism, identify their attitude to “shamanic madness” and possible reasons for its formation, and compare positions of different authors on the subject. The following methods were used: comparative, causal...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
2023
Ismael Apud, Juan Scuro, Luisina Rodríguez et al.
4 citations
This study is an interdisciplinary research into Uruguayan ayahuasca users belonging to one neo-shamanic and one Santo Daime group. The study involved the chemical analysis of ayahuasca samples, an ethnographic description of the two traditions and rituals, and the application of psychometric scales to measure personality differences, and the acute psychological effects during an ayahuasca...
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
2023
Olivia Marcus
29 citations
Ayahuasca has a variety of traditional uses, yet there is a growing global interest in its potential therapeutic benefits for mental health conditions. Novel approaches to psychotherapy are emerging to address the needs of ayahuasca users to prepare as well as to guide them in 'integrating' their powerful psychedelic experiences, yet there is little discussion on the ethical frameworks that may...
Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies
December 23, 2022
Meghan Tierney
Many scholars assume that the ancient Nasca practiced a form of shamanism on the south coast of present-day Peru (c. 1–750 CE). Typically, the identification of entheogens and shaman figures as subject matter in the vast corpus of Nasca polychrome ceramics supports those claims; however, visual analysis of the vessel forms and images reveals further evidence of a deeper understanding of...
Religions
December 22, 2022
Michał Tadeusz Najman
2 citations
The function of the law in shaping social values is exposed in the article. Thispaper considers whether certain practices penalised in the surveyed countries (carrying our rituals with the use of human remains) could be classified as intangible cultural heritage and, thus, whether these practices should be legally protected. The main conclusion of the analysis is the statement that criminal law...
Religions
December 14, 2022
Carolina Ivanescu, Nienke Groskamp
1 citation
Birds of prey appear frequently in contemporary forms of shamanism. For example, Michael Harner’s Core Shamanism references the ‘power animal,’ or the authentic self, which sometimes takes the form of a strong and benevolent eagle. However, precisely how meaning and belief concerning these birds may have been lost, challenged or (re)invented remains to be explored. In this contribution, we have...
Вестник антропологии
December 6, 2022
V. I. Kharitonova
1 citation
В статье речь идет об отдельных практиках (нео)шаманизма, распространенных в XXI в., на фоне характеристики общей ситуации с «возрождением шаманизма» в конце ХХ — начале XXI вв. Национально‑культурное возрождение постсоветского периода трансформировало шаманизм, сменив его форму бытования с индивидуальной на коллективную, — с акцентом на духовном целительстве, с одной стороны, и на религиозной...