December 20, 2005
Matthew R Allen
This chapter employs the case of Akihiro, a transgendered boy who was initiated as a shaman as a 14-year-old, to expose a number of culturally specific factors that relate to shamanism, religion, mental health, and gender in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture. I am particularly interested in how gender informs people’s choices about how to deal with their psychological or spiritual...
Organised Sound
April 1, 2005
Matthew Burtner
The author's close connection to traditional Alaskan culture has inspired the creation and implementation of new multimedia instruments based on the use of ritual objects in shamanic cultures of the far north. Simultaneously, the musical processes articulated by this music are structurally tied to environmental systems in a technique discussed here as ‘ecoacoustics’. In this work,...
September 1, 2004
Pascal Couderc
Sometimes, “overloaded” with the illnesses that he has taken upon himself in healing his patients, the Iban shaman falls ill. He must then perform a rite to ease his burden, “bailing” it like water out of a boat. It certainly is a heavy burden that, so to say, Clifford Sather has eased off himself by writing this book, the materials for which he began to collect in the Saribas region of Sarawak...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
September 1, 2004
Alexandre Surrallés
18 citations
I Am Tsunki: Gender and Shamanism among the Shuar of Western Amazonia. Marie Perruchon, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 33, 2003. 402 pp.
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
March 1, 2004
Michael A. Winkelman
90 citations
Neurotheological approaches provide an important bridge between scientific and religious perspectives. These approaches have, however, generally neglected the implications of a primordial form of spiritual healing—shamanism. Cross-cultural studies estab- lish the universality of shamanic practices in hunter-gatherer societ- ies around the world and across time. These universal principles of...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2004
Joan B. Townsend
26 citations
I draw from my papers and oral presentations to address several issues of Core and Neo‐shamanism. These include clarification of definitions and distinctions between traditional shamans, Core shamanism, Neo‐shamanism, and urban shamanism. Finally I propose an evaluation of Core and Neo‐shamanism.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
2004
Thomas F. Weso
1 citation
A nondescript rock shelter in Texas provides unexpected evidence for shamanism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. There, archaeologists found clearly identifiable images of antlered human figures and entheogenic plant substances, including datura (jimson weed), peyote, and ephedra (Indian or Mormon tea), items associated with shamanistic practices. From a more recent site in Bandolier, New...
L Homme
2004
Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
Thank you for this opportunity to respond to historian Guillaume Boccara’s review of my ethnography La Voz del Kultrun en la Modernidad : Tradicion y Cambio en la Terapeutica de Siete Machi. Boccara’s lack of understanding of the anthropological literature, ethnographic methodologies and writing, and his authoritarian imposition of his own perspective cripple his ability to give a fair reading...
Technoetic Arts
December 1, 2003
Marion Laval-Jeantet
Iboga's Travel is the title of a global project which was conceived after a Gabonese initiation into ‘Bwiti’. The Bwiti is one of the few secret shamanic practices forced to open itself to the outside world by the disappearance of the Equatorial forest. Its traditions remain alive in Gabon, but it has to adapt to the changes brought by cultural globalization. The Bwiti is a rite in which the...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
September 1, 2003
Gastón Gordillo
El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un análisis comparative) de la inscriptión de prácticas shamánicas en los campos de lucha y en la economía política del Chaco argentino. Basándome en fuentes históricas y etnográficas y en mi propio trabajo de campo entre los tobas occidentals, analizo cómo los shamanes han sido actores políticos involucrados en cambiantes formas de confrontación...