This article concentrates on the characteristics of shamanic practice in Tuva, a republic within the Russian Federation. While delineating the unique features of shamanic craft, such as a lack of trance, the analysis concentrates on the significance of sound and music as indispensable elements of the shamanic repertoire. In short, the article argues that the organizational structure of the...
May 15, 2017Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart1 citation
The importance of ritual experts known in the ethnographic literature as shamans is well-known for the Aus-tronesian-speaking groups in Taiwan, parts of New Guinea and South-East Asia, and many other areas of the world. These experts, female or male, play leading roles as healers, diviners, and mediators in processes of conflict and the establishment of political power in local contexts. The...
Abstract There have been a number of electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies in “altered” states of consciousness including dissociative conditions, hypnosis, and meditation; however, the nature and clinical significance of trance states remain elusive. Alterations of consciousness that accompany trance can shed light on the brain networks contributing to the experience of...
This research was about the adherence to abagirwa's Shamanism and its effects on anthropological status.The main objective of this research was to find out the reason of which in Gitenga Cell are registered many mad.We ran with hypotheses according to which to practice abagirwa's shamanism should be the reason of the high presence of mad in Gitenga Cell.To make a hermeneutic and critical...
In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky examines shamanism as an ancient magico-religious, divinatory, medical, and psychotherapeutic tradition found in various parts of the world. Sidky uses first-hand ethnographic fieldwork and scientific theoretical work in archaeology, cognitive and evolutionary psychology, and neurotheology to explore the origins of...
Through the history of a Yucatecan Mayan shaman (h-men), this article analyzes the changes and continuities in Yucatecan shamanism and, more specifically, in one of its main functions: tsak, healing. The results presented here are part of fieldwork carried out over 40 years, from 1976 to 2016. The author lives in a community in central Yucatán (Tabi, Sotuta) and has carried out a number of...
Reproduction and aggression: shamanic practices among Quichuas from Ecuador (Imbabura and Chimborazo Provinces) 1 Reproduction and aggression: shamanic practices… El agua no es más fuerte que yo, porque yo soy el agua.La tierra no es más grande que yo, porque yo soy la tierra.El fuego no es más fuerte que yo, porque yo soy la luz.El aire no es más grande que yo, porque yo soy el aire.Yachak...
In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky examines shamanism as an ancient magico-religious, divinatory, medical, and psychotherapeutic tradition found in various parts of the world. Sidky uses first-hand ethnographic fieldwork and scientific theoretical work in archaeology, cognitive and evolutionary psychology, and neurotheology to explore the origins of...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious health concern. Current evidence-based treatments for PTSD are efficacious; however, they are not appropriate or tolerated by everyone who needs them. Alternative treatment approaches are needed. Shamanic healing is one such therapy that may potentially be beneficial but no systematic research has been conducted on it for PTSD. The objectives of...
This article takes an Amazonian example to question one of the main issues of the shamanic ritual utterance: the operation of composition-translation that the ritual specialist has to carry out to “represent” the invisibles during his performance, and the sensory apparatuses it implies. In fact, the study of the ikara therapeutic songs of the Runa people from the Peruvian Amazon (Upper Pastaza)...