Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
August 1, 1967
Jenö Fazekas
It is claimed that it is possible to recover an important segment of the religion of pre-Christian Hungary and its intellectual culture by attempting to isolate the shamanistic survival in Hungarian folk tradition. According to certain scholars this shamanistic element came from the East some thousand years ago to the region now dominated by Hungarian folk tradition along with the migrant...
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
August 1, 1967
Erik Holtved
Shamans and shamanistic performances have been described from almost all parts of the Eskimo world, from the Pacific Ocean and Bering Strait to East Greenland, and to judge from the records it seems that the position and traditional functions of the shaman in general have had a rather uniform stamp all over this vast area. Apparently shamanism has been narrowly connected with Eskimo culture far...
1962
Textor, Robert B.
Analyzes a case study from field work in Thailand, using the survey technique to investigate Shamanism. Describes the techniques used and reports substantive findings to illustrate the method. Presents the setting for the study, and identifies villagers concerned. Describes the survey schedule, and discusses "client," "problem" and "response" variables, and cross-tabulates them. Explains...
Diogenes
March 1, 1957
Anatole Lewitzky
What is shamanism? What is the social nature of this institution which at times seems so clearly to be situated on the fringe of society that one is tempted to call it anti-social? There is indeed no lack of definitions, but where religion is concerned definitions are never satisfactory, for the limits of various phenomena are too uncertain and shadings between them too subtle. The social...
Peter N. Jones
preprint
In this bibliography I list the results of a large-scale archival and data base research project that investigated the history of the scholarly use of the terms shamanism and shaman in English-speaking North America. This was done to provide a historical grounding in the hope of arriving at an operationally sound definition of the term.
Paula-Grațiela Cernamoriț
preprint
This study explores the representation of Korean shamanism in South Korean television series (Kdramas) and examines how these productions contribute to the preservation and promotion of shamanic traditions in the context of globalization. The research is based on the hypothesis that Korean shamanism has survived not only through those who still practice traditional rituals but also through mass...
Luis Felipe Narvaez Galindez
This article analyzes the emergence and consolidation of Pitalito (Laboyos Valley, Colombia) as a transnational epicenter for digital witchcraft services. Through a socio-anthropological approach, it examines how the anxieties of the "risk society" (Ulrich Beck) and "liquid modernity" (Zygmunt Bauman) create a persistent demand for magical solutions in the face of emotional and professional...
Stanislovas Tomas
preprint
The paper considers shamanism as an analytical model for the analysis of case-law making. The main hypothesis of this approach is that a legal principle is a contemporary analogue to a shamanic spirit, and therefore, a judge is a contemporary shaman. This theory suggests replacing such words as article, case and legal act by the notion of an amulet where spirits live. The paper represents an...
Uta Reinöhl, Pachu Pulu, Usha Wallner
This paper offers the first linguistic description of Igu, the shamanic language of the Kera’a (also 'Idu(Mishmi)'), and thus presents one of the first linguistic descriptions of an Eastern Himalayan rituallanguage. The Kera’a are a Tibeto‐Burman‐speaking society of ca. 10 000‐16 000 members, based inand around the very northeastern Himalayan river valley of India, in the Dibang Valley and...
Manvir Singh
35 citations
Shamans, including medicine-men, mediums, and the prophets of religious movements, recur across human societies. Shamanism also existed among nearly all documented hunter-gatherers, likely characterized the religious lives of many ancestral humans, and is often proposed by anthropologists to be the “first profession”, representing the first institutionalized division of labor beyond age and...