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International Review of Scottish Studies September 27, 2011 Sierra Rose Dye
Wilby, Emma. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. 604. ISBN 978-1-84519-180-1. CAD$ 65.00; £35.00.
CrossCurrents September 1, 2011 Laurel Kendall
The Contraction and Expansion of Shamanic Landscapes in Contemporary South Korea Laurel Kendall In contemporary South Korea, shamans and clients navigate a landscape of sacred mountain space, a map that is being reconfigured by urban development, roads, congestion, and tourism but remains a sacred landscape nonetheless. I am following other anthropologists and critical geographers in their...
Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture August 1, 2011 Pieter F. Craffert
The purpose of this article is to introduce biblical interpreters to shamanism and the study of the shamanic complex. The shaman represents an identifiable pattern of religious entrepreneurs with shared practices and beliefs based on alternate states of consciousness experiences. Based on the bodily and neurological potential for alternate states of consciousness experiences, shamanism finds...
American Ethnologist July 5, 2011 Michael Winkelman
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon . Stephan V. Beyer . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . 544 pp . Beyer's book developed from trips to the Amazon out of an interest in jungle survival that extended to a personal absorption with Amazonian spirituality. Although purportedly about “mestizo shamanism of the upper Amazon” (p. xi), it covers a...
Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies June 5, 2011 Susannah Crockford 11 citations
Shamanic practices and practitioners in western countries are often derided as 'inauthentic' by both scholars and members of indigenous communities. The experience derived from such practices is therefore also implied to be contrived. This paper analyses shamanism in the UK as part of 'western shamanism' rather than 'neo-shamanism'. Western shamanism is understood to be a valid religious...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft June 1, 2011 P. G. Maxwell‐Stuart
Reviewed by: The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland P. G. Maxwell-Stuart Keywords Isobel Gowdie, witchcraft, Scotland, Calvinism, shamanism, magic Emma Wilby . The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 604. At first glance,...
Norwegian Archaeological Review June 1, 2011 María Cruz Berrocal 13 citations
Rock art studies have been strongly reliant on ethnography in recent decades. Since the 1970s, the (re)turn to ethnography has been considered short of a paradigmatic change, and it has indeed stirred a lot of theoretical discussion in the very under-theorized field of rock art research. The ethnographic turn has been mainly built around shamanism, very loosely defined here as the causal...
Journal of Ethnopharmacology April 12, 2011 X Jauregui, Z M Clavo, E M Jovel et al. 91 citations
We present and discuss a particular group of plants used by a diversity of healers in the initiation process and apprenticeship of traditional medicine, as practiced by Amazonian societies in East-Central Peru. Often, these plants are locally called plantas con madre (plants with a mother), and are thought to guide initiates in the process of seeking sacred knowledge, learning about plant...
NeuroQuantology March 5, 2011 Michael Winkelman 14 citations
Although the term “shamanic†is used to refer to a diverse range of phenomena, it nonetheless reflects something empirical. Cross-cultural research illustrates that the concept of the shaman reflects the existence of similar spiritual healing practices found in pre-modern foraging and simple horticultural and pastoral societies around the world (Winkelman, 1992; 2000). This cross-cultural...
Journal of Southern African Studies March 1, 2011 Anne Solomon 12 citations
The oral narratives and personal accounts given by the /Xam of the northern Cape, and recorded by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, have played a key role in interpretations of rock art and of southern San culture, recent and ancient, generally. However, the validity of the account that relates the /Xam texts to supposed shamanic practices is an issue requiring attention. The texts are open to...