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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 1987 Juha Pentikäinen
What is the history of the drum, which once arrived from the Saami area in northernmost Europe to the collections of an Italian museum, L. Pigorini museum? At the moment, it is the only Saami drum the existence of which is certain in Italy. Saami drums were probably popular objects of export in the 17th and 18th centuries. Missionaries and explorers brought dozens of drums from various parts of...
Social Science & Medicine 1987 M M Balzer
Siberian shamanism has roots in hunting traditions, kinship organization and soul beliefs which have changed under Soviet rule. Aspects of shamanic epistemology and curing survive, although native medical logic sometimes clashes with modern positivist medicine. Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology. The...
Institutional Repositories DataBase March 28, 1984 Laurel Kendall 1 citation
『みんぱくリポジトリ』 は、国立民族学博物館における研究成果を収集し、世界に公開するための発信拠点です。 "National Museum of Ethnology Repository" is the database to store and provide digital resourses created by National Museum of Ethnology
Ethnologia Europaea December 31, 1983 Hans Sebald 7 citations
Ideal-type shamanism is compared with Franconian folk magic. Franconia, a central province of Germany, experiences the end phase of a tradition of dualistic folk magic, including white and black witchcraft. While there are similarities between shamanism and Franconian magic - good or evil spirits amenable to magical manipulation, psychosomatic effects, "justice magic" -, differences prevail....
American Ethnologist August 1, 1983 Richard Noll
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state‐specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in the anthropological literature of the “schizophrenia metaphor” of shamanism and its altered states is untenable. A current psychiatric diagnostic manual is utilized to show that significant...
British Journal of Medical Psychology March 1, 1980 M Cramer 11 citations
The so-called mystical possession of Juan Jose Fong, a socially marginal Chinese-Mexican of hysterical personality is directly related to the subject's psychological conflicts and emotional complexes and familial and social standing within the immediate cultural context. The subject is seen as suffering from conflicting emotions and cognitions centering around guilt, inferiority and...
Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 1973 Åke Hultkrantz
No abstract available
Cultural Studies Review 1970 Juan Obarrio
An exploration of the author's experience of studying anthropology and shamanism in Buenos Aires.
Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 1969 Ingrid Schellbach
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis August 1, 1967 Odd Nordland
Our usual conception of the shaman is, indeed, that he employs monotonous effects to fall into ecstasy and arrive at the state of trance: he sings and dances alone, or along with others. The auditory stimulations and the motoric movements, in increasing intensity, and the emotional induction from the crowd around him result in his falling into a trance in the end, and the disconnecting of...