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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2018 Michael James Winkelman
Singh conflates diverse religious statuses into a single category that includes practitioners with roles that differ significantly from empirical characteristics of shamans. The rejection of biological models of trance and conspicuous display models misses the evolutionary roots of shamanism involving the social functions of ritual in producing psychological and social integration and ritual...
Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being 2018 Shubha Ranganathan
This chapter undertakes an exhaustive review of the vast literature on indigenous healing within anthropology and psychology. Although the topic of ritual healing has been popular within anthropology, in more recent times, it has also drawn the interest of scholars in psychology and related fields. Much of the early research on indigenous healing or ritual healing focussed on the practices of...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2018 Rachel E. Watson-Jones, Cristine H. Legare 7 citations
Cultural evolutionary accounts of shamanism must explain the cross-cultural recurrence and variation in associated practices. We suggest that Singh's account of shamanism would be strengthened by considering the social functions of shamanism in groups. Shamanism increases social group cohesion, making it distinct from other magico-religious practices.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2018 Connor P. Wood, Kate J. Stockly 5 citations
Singh deploys cultural evolution to explain recurrent features of shamanistic trance forms, but fails to substantively address important distinctions between these forms. Possession trance (vs. trance without possession) is disproportionately female-dominated and found in complex societies. The effects of cultural conditions on shamanism thus extend beyond its presence or absence and are vital...
Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change December 30, 2017 María Albert Rodrigo
In this article, we explore the penetration of different shamanic currents in the new millennium in Spain, with a particular focus on the Region of Valencia. The traditions in this area differ from the shamanic traditions that had been previously adopted in two aspects: they are different shamanic currents and they follow their own settlement dynamics. By using a qualitative methodology based...
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America December 15, 2017 William H. Crocker
In this article I recount the stories of various shamans I have worked with throughout many decades of fieldwork among the Ramkokamekra-Canela (Eastern Timbira) of central Maranhão state, Brazil. Along with their narratives, I provide ethnographic context in order to address the following questions: (1) Who is a shaman? (2) What is shamanism? Is shamanism better understood (3) as a process or a...
Numen September 28, 2017 Feng Qu
Abstract: The hypothesis of ancient Chinese shamanism popularized by K. C. Chang in the 1980s has long been one of the central problems in the study of Chinese archaeology. By examining the structures that constitute Chang’s shamanic framework, this article argues that the problem centers around two major issues. The first is that Chang follows a tradition in Chinese academic historiography of...
Numen September 28, 2017 Thomas Michael 8 citations
Abstract The article examines various options that scholars have explored in their efforts to construct a history of shamanism. Recognizing Eliade’s promise that such a history lies in the near future, the article then explores the important ways in which this has been undertaken. It specifies four such ways: with prehistoric rock art, the origins of cultural myths, memory studies, and...
Social Compass July 18, 2017 Esther Jean Langdon 9 citations
Translations of the native notion of shamanic agency of the Siona Indians of Colombia is explored throughout different historical and social contexts. The polysemic concept rau is central to the shaman’s capacity for establishing relations of exchange and negotiation with humans and non-humans. As the embodiment of his power, it fits within a semantic field that conveys the waxing and waning of...
Новые исследования Тувы June 18, 2017 Leo Tadagawa
The author first got acquainted with Tuvan music in 1991, at the 2nd International Congress of Jew’s Harp Music in Yakutia, Russia. Among other ethnomusical bands from Russia’s various regions and CIS states, the Tuvan band stood out with its special techniques of playing the khomus (Jew’s harp) and of throat singing which accompanied their music. One of them, Gennadii Chash, later tutored the...