HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
July 29, 2021
R. A. Northover
3 citations
The study reappraised Emile Durkheim’s totemic principle in relation to the origins of religion and culture, using, amongst others, speech act theory and recent southern African epistemologies, especially David Lewis-Williams’ theory of shamanism, potency and altered states of consciousness. The study was text-based, qualitative and interpretive, and used key texts from anthropology,...
Culture
July 8, 2021
Erich Kasten
Shamanism, as defined in this paper, existed among the Sami only into the 19th century. Besides its relatively early dissolution it displays certain unique features, as well as basic ideological similarities, that distinguish it from circumpolar shamanism in general. These variations are studied here as indicators of religious change in two periods of Sami history: the period of the impact of...
Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
July 5, 2021
L. S. Dampilova
Проведено исследование региональной специфики бурятских обрядов в разнообразии реализаций мифологических и исторических составляющих и поздних инноваций. Впервые в историческом и этнокультурном контексте расшифровывается мифологический компонент вербального материала, сопровождающего обрядовые действа бурят. По современным полевым и архивным материалам выявлены контаминация, трансформация мифа...
Journal of Ethnobiology
July 1, 2021
Hernando Echeverri-Sanchez
1 citation
This article explores the use of Cyperus articulates in Putumayo, Colombia. This often-overlooked medicinal plant, known here as chondur, is used as a shamanic tool to fight the multiplicity of spiritual agents that can cause illness in western Amazonia. It also has a central role in yagé/ ayahuasca ceremonies, placing it in a unique position for an analytical observation of the dynamics of...
Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Ushuluddin
June 30, 2021
Riza Saputra, Husnul Khotimah
1 citation
This paper aims at finding the relational system, religious encounter, and modernity of the Temiar community in Malaysia. The form of this research has focused on literature research (library research) by using literature as a source of research. The method used is an analysis of documents by conducting content analysis. This within-case analysis is followed by a thematic analysis across the...
Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
June 10, 2021
Darmaiza Darmaiza
Shamanism is an idea which is improving in the primitive society, in which is having more in any animistic activity, to relate any living activity which is called “Shaman” is connect believe the spirit life which the human living now. The appearance of “Shaman” in the now living becomes an introducer for people to, tell any difficult inner livings, in the privates or society ones the most in...
Religions
May 28, 2021
Eleanor Harrison-Buck, D. Freidel
33 citations
Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist, social evolutionary theory and have been criticized for their vague and homogenizing rubric, an overly romanticized idealism, and the tendency to ‘other’ nonwestern peoples as ahistorical, apolitical, and irrational. The...
ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА
April 24, 2021
Галина Борисовна Сыченко
Статья посвящена рассмотрению основных подходов к изучению музыки в шаманизме, сложившихся и функционирующих в современной антропологии и музыковедении. Автор характеризует различные направления в каждом из них, приводя в качестве примеров и анализируя наиболее показательные труды. Литература (источники и исследования) подобрана таким образом, чтобы позволить читателю самостоятельно расширить...
April 23, 2021
Flavio A. Geisshuesler
1 citation
The Integration of Eliade and Lévi-Strauss: Sacred Poles and Songs of Labor as Forms of De-historification After Vittorio Macchioro recommended Eliade's Yoga: An Essay on the Origins of Indian Mysticism (1936) to his new son-in-law shortly after its publication, de Martino's legacy leaves no traces of the Romanian giant for a decade.1Even though Eliade's lengthy article entitled "The Problem of...
Religions
April 7, 2021
Tiina Äikäs, Trude Fonneland
In this paper, we study the role of power animals in contemporary Saami shamanism and how past and present are entwined in the presentation of power animals. In the old Saami worldviews, in addition to animals, spirits and sacred rocks (sieidi, SaaN) were also considered to be able to interact with people. Animals were an important part of offering rituals because livelihood and rituals were...