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Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2003 Evajane N. Fridman 21 citations
Nine Worlds of SEID‐MAGIC: Ecstasy and Neo‐Shamanism in North European Paganism. Jenny Blain. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. 192 pages $20.95 Paperback.
American Anthropologist June 1, 2003 James M. Wilce
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 296 pp.
New Theatre Quarterly May 1, 2003 Rachel Karafistan
In today's diverse and evolving world of performance there is a place for the reinvestigation of the archaic realm of shamanism, and the extent to which it relates to modern theatre practice. To what extent do the calling, initiation, trance, and performance states of the shaman resemble the experience of today's actors? Is there really a dichotomy between a theatre of greed and a theatre of...
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 2003 Timothy L. Hubbard 10 citations
Properties of mental representation are related to findings in cognitive science and ideas in shamanism. A selective review of research in cognitive science suggests visual images and spatial memory preserve important functional information regarding physical principles and the behavior of objects in the natural world, and notions of second‐order isomorphism and the perceptual cycle developed...
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 2003 I. M. Lewis 18 citations
Altered States of Consciousness is an umbrella term applied in the study of psychological, sociological and religious phenomena that are regularly encountered experientially in the study of trance, possession, and shamanism, all of which have complex and problematic links with music. Beginning with trance, and stressing the pervasive sexual imagery invoked, this paper reviews the role ofASC in...
American Journal of Public Health October 1, 2002 Marlene Dobkin De Rios 35 citations
The author, a medical anthropologist and licensed psychotherapist, draws on a database of 700 Latino immigrant families whom she has treated to demonstrate concepts and techniques of psychotherapeutic intervention that are derived from shamanic roots in the immigrant's original culture. Congruences may exist between the shamanic techniques of the coastal and Amazonian regions of Peru and 3...
Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2002 Timothy L. Hubbard 12 citations
Correspondences and similarities between ideas in shamanism and ideas in contemporary cognitive science are considered. The importance of interconnectedness in the web of life worldview characteristic of shamanism and in connectionist models of semantic memory in cognitive science, and the extension of meaning to elements of the natural world in shamanism and indistributed cognition, are...
Medical Anthropology Quarterly June 1, 2002 Beth A. Conklin
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. xiii. 283 pp.Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing. Michael Winkelman. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2000. 336 pp.Was ist ein Schamane?/What is. Shaman? Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men from....
Des sources du savoir aux médicaments du futur 2002 Eric Navet
AbstractThe Amerindian societies conceive and live the Creation as a complex whole in a precarious balance, including visible and invisible parts which are all interelated and interdependent. The ethics which allows and organizes the living defines it, according to the Ojibay Indians, as a totality “beautiful, well ordered and harmonic”. In this framework, the myth stages the human being as a...
Anthropology & Humanism December 1, 2001 Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 18 citations
The agony of public and private changes in Russia (the Federation of Rossiia) has extended to indigenous peoples of Siberia. Focus on the Sakha Republic Yakutia) of the Far East enables analysis of diverse social, political, and spiritual transformations. Initial 1990s euphoria at the possibility of personal and community reform has yielded to confusion and soul searching. In such conditions,...