Общество философия история культура
March 18, 2026
Vladislava S. Tyutyunnik
The article is devoted to the study of the mythopoetic foundations of dance as a stable cultural code linking ar-chaic ritual practices with modern choreographic forms. The paper considers dance as a dynamic system rep-resenting universal mythologems through plastic vocabulary, choreographic drama and space-time organiza-tion. The author applies a mythopoetic approach synthesizing the methods...
Arts
March 17, 2026
Zhilong Yan, Manyi Pei
Daoism is an important indigenous religion of China that emerged from ancient totemic worship and shamanic practices, encompassing mysterious ritual arts known as fulu (talismans and registers). Daoist fulu writing constitutes an important content and manifestation of Daoist spiritual calligraphy, representing a significant embodiment of Daoist sacred knowledge and mystical power. This paper...
International Journal of History and Archaeology Research Studies
March 16, 2026
S Sajeer
This article examines the encounter between Tibetan Buddhist monastic traditions and indigenous animist cosmologies in the hill societies of present-day Arunachal Pradesh between the eighth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork by Verrier Elwin, Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, and Niranjan Sarkar, alongside material and archival evidence, the study traces how the...
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
March 10, 2026
Ya Yambao Yang, Mandy Yang, Tiffany Wing Lam Yip et al.
BACKGROUND: Hmong people experience a disproportionate burden of mental health challenges. While prior studies have examined mental health within Hmong communities, no study has focused on Hmong shamans’ experiences with depression. This study explores how Hmong shamans understand, experience, and respond to depression. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 12 Hmong...
Preprints.org
February 27, 2026
Luis Miguel Gallardo
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This comprehensive literature review synthesizes the published scholarship on transpersonal psychology, transpersonal psychotherapy, and transpersonal hypnotherapy from the field's inception in the 1960s through 2026. Drawing from 283 unique scholarly sources across multiple databases, this review examines the theoretical foundations, philosophical underpinnings, clinical applications,...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
February 17, 2026
Mukesh Gurung
This paper examines the significance of paraphernalia used by the shamans of Darjeeling Himalaya. The grant of Darjeeling on the 1st of February 1835 by the Chogyal of Sikkim to the English became a major turning point in the history of Darjeeling. The plantation of tea in the hills intensified the migration from Nepal. The emigrants carried their culture and traditions along with them. The...
Religions
February 12, 2026
Maciej Karasinski, Prasad Erancheri
This comparative study sheds light on the agency of nature and provides a lens through which to examine the intersection of ritual, ecology, and indigenous environmental consciousness in South Asia. The paper argues that the sacred groves are not just passive backdrops for human rituals, but dynamic spaces in which fauna, flora, rocks and other natural entities are actively involved in...
Religions
January 27, 2026
Hao Zhang, Hua Cai
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Mianning County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture between 2023 and 2024, this paper analyzes the “xiō bū” (ꑭꁮ) ritual of the Liangshan Yi people. Framed within contemporary approaches to religious anthropology and social memory theory, the study explores how this ritual constructs Yi ecological ethics, social integration, and cultural...
Multidisciplinary Science Journal
January 16, 2026
An Thanh Ngo
This paper examines the Yiey Mao belief among the Khmer in Southern Vietnam as a vivid example of how an indigenous religion adapts and endures amid modernization and globalization. Drawing on the anthropology of religion (Geertz, Turner, Tambiah, Eliade), the study interprets Yiey Mao as a dynamic symbolic system that negotiates between tradition and modernity, the sacred and the secular,...
BORDER CROSSING
January 15, 2026
Çakır Ceyhan Suvari
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of shamanism in the Central Asian context, arguing that it cannot be reduced to a static relic of the past but should instead be understood as a dynamic and multi-layered system of meaning-making. First, the cosmological and ritual foundations of shamanism—anchored in tripartite universe models and axis mundi schemata—are shown to provide both...