1996
Valerie Cronin-Schaffnit
This thesis explores a traditional Native model of healing. This holistic approach to healing is based on Native philosophy which integrates the physical, the emotional, the mental and the spiritual aspects of being for the person to be healthy, balanced and in harmony. The healing process incorporates an experiential approach based on shamanic techniques of healing including breath work or...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
1996
Aado Lintrop
Belief in the hereditary transmission of shaman's gift is common to all Siberian shamanism. One can find corresponding motifs in Nganasan shamanism as well as in Tuvinian one. Often there is impossible to become a shaman without having shamans-ancestors in family. Sometimes they are namely the spirits of shamans-ancestors, who at first reveal themselves to the devotee and force him to...
uO Research
1996
Bernard G. Comeau
1 citation
The dissertation is a monograph of grizzly bear spiritual power as it was historically conceptualized and manifest among Native cultures of the Pacific Slope of North America. Focusing specifically upon cultural reports of persons (e.g., shamans) acknowledged to hold grizzly bear spiritual power, descriptive summaries outline the varied behaviours, abilities, and functions associated with these...
Philippiniana Sacra
1995
Leonardo Mercado
2 citations
The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) stressed the importance of interfaith dialogue.'Although it mentioned the world religions present in the Philippines, it forgot the primal religion of our indigenous peoples.Instead PCP II put believers of primal religion as objects of evangelization -not agents of evangelization.This oversight of PCP lI can perhaps be traced to earlier...
Anthropology of Consciousness
December 1, 1994
Antonia Mills
Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama: Health and Medicine in Native North American Religious Traditions. Åke Hultkrantz. New York: Crossroad, 1992. 197 pp. $19.95 (cloth).
Anthropology of Consciousness
June 1, 1994
Douglass Price‐williams, Dureen J. Hughes
27 citations
There has been a renewed interest in psychology and anthropology in the idea of altered states of consciousness. This paper begins by examining the meaning of this term and the extent to which such experiences are reported globally. The topic of shamanism is then discussed, first with respect to its social functions, and then to what is known about its psychological aspects (which is little)....
May 25, 1994
Robert M. Torrance
This chapter states that with the gradual spread of Lamaist Buddhism northward to Mongolia and Siberia, not only those who adopted (and adapted) the new religion, but others who presumably retained ancestral shaman practices, were deeply influenced by it. Given the wide diffusion of a clearly ancient shamanic complex from Lapland eastward to Greenland (hence far beyond Buddhist influences),...
May 25, 1994
Robert M. Torrance
The medium's personal transformation by possession trance is a temporary change without major consequence (in most instances) for daily life. Her self-perception as the passive implement of a power beyond her control reduces, moreover, the extent to which she actively participates in shaping its responses (thus in shaping the future), and increases her tendency to fall back on cultural...
The Latin American Anthropology Review
March 1, 1994
Michael F. Brown
3 citations
Portals of Power: Shamanism in South America. E. Jean Matteson Langdon and Gerhard Baer, editors. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. vii + 350 pp., figures, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–8263–1345–0.
Journal of Organizational Change Management
February 1, 1994
Peter J. Frost, Carolyn P. Egri
Proposes that there are parallels between the roles of shamans in their communities and the roles which organizational change and development consultants can play in guiding organizational transformations. Presents fundamental assumptions underlying the shamanic perspective on transformational change and utilizes them to understand the problems resulting from a large‐scale organizational change...