Worldviews
2015
Eleanor Peers, Lyubov’ Kolodeznikova
The Sakha national revival in Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia, aims to recover dying elements of Sakha culture, in order to preserve the Sakha people’s distinctive identity. And yet this revival is itself imbued with assumptions rooted in the European cultures that initiated modernist colonisation. Contemporary Sakha shamanism reflects the tensions within the nationalist revival, in the contrasting...
2015
Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis
A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are...
Ponto Urbe
December 30, 2014
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edilene Coffaci de Lima
6 citations
Desde a metade da última década, em grandes cidades do Brasil, começou a se difundir o uso da secreção da perereca Phyllomedusa bicolor. Um pouco mais tarde, partir da segunda década deste século, tornou-se possível alcançar informações sobre tal difusão em cidades europeias e norte-americanas. Tradicionalmente usada como revigorante e estimulante para caça por grupos indígenas do sudoeste...
October 28, 2014
Chaviano’s Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother is a pioneering Cuban science fiction novel with four interconnected plots that manifest their separate worlds—the Havana of Ana, the protagonist writer, the Neolithic Celtic world of Merlin and Stonehenge, Faidir, the planet of Ijje and the winged psyches with three eyes, and Rybel, the world of Ana’s character Arlena, the “jumen” on the...
PLoS One
July 7, 2014
Bruno Gingras, Gerald Pohler, W. Tecumseh Fitch
33 citations
Exposure to repetitive drumming combined with instructions for shamanic journeying has been associated with physiological and therapeutic effects, such as an increase in salivary immunoglobulin A. In order to assess whether the combination of repetitive drumming and shamanic instructions is specifically associated with these effects, we compared the effect of listening to either repetitive...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Françoise Barbira Freedman
7 citations
Abstract The introduction provides an overview of the expansion of ayahuasca shamanism, and places it in the context of its interactions with Western therapies and the New Age movement. It also contemplates the role of shamanism as a mediator in contemporary indigenous ethnic relationships. The introduction reviews the existing field of research and offer a comment that gives context and...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
164 citations
This book discusses how Amerindian epistemology and ontology, related to certain indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon, spread to Western societies, and how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have dialogued with and transformed these forest traditions. Special attention is given to the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca. Chapters reflect on how displaced indigenous people and rubber...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2014
Emma Scott
Abstract: This article considers the shaman's visionary encounters with spirit beings from the critical viewpoint of several innovative theories of shamanism: Richard Noll's cognitive approach and Michael Winkelman's neurophenomenological perspective. These distinct approaches are analyzed in light of Jung's central concepts of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the individuation...
Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies
March 1, 2014
Alison Oliveto, Michael J Mancino, Jeff Thostenson et al.
1 citation
AbstractBackgroundNo therapy has shown robust efficacy for treating psychostimulant dependence. Meanwhile, the feasibility and effectiveness of direct spiritual healing modalities for this disorder are unknown.ObjectivesTo determine the acceptability of participating in research using a spiritual healing approach, namely shamanic healing, among psychostimulant users.MethodsPsychostimulant users...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 28, 2013
Rainer W. Bussmann
79 citations
Northern Peru represents the center of the Andean "health axis," with roots going back to traditional practices of Cupisnique culture (1000 BC). For more than a decade of research, semistructured interviews were conducted with healers, collectors, and sellers of medicinal plants. In addition, bioassays were carried out to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of plants found. Most of the 510...