Aceno - Revista de Antropologia do Centro-Oeste
June 14, 2022
Benedito Emílio da Silva Ribeiro, Daniel J. Fonseca
This research analyzes the cultural practices surrounding the Tembé shaman in the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Land, northeast of the State of Pará. Establishes connections and evaluates interactions, loans and exchanges with practices of African and European origin, which reveal afroindigenous relations within the villages. Mapping the specificities of pajelança, practitioners and knowledge...
Focaal
June 9, 2022
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
2 citations
Abstract After a spiritual epiphany, the Sakha shaman Alexander Gabyshev became prominent in 2018–2020 by calling Vladimir Putin an authoritarian demon. Critiquing Russia's corrupt society through the internet and a protest march, Alexander rose to civic society leadership with multiethnic sympathizers. This article explains why Alexander became popular, and how he became a threat to Russia's...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 28, 2021
Bernd Brabec de Mori
15 citations
During the last decades, ayahuasca gained much popularity among non-Indigenous and out-of-Amazonia based populations. In popular culture, it has been advertised as a natural remedy that was discovered by Indigenous peoples ante millennia and that has been used for shamanic healing of all kinds of ailments. This “neo-shamanic,” and often recreational, use of ayahuasca, however, has to be...
May 11, 2021
Jens Schlieter
2 citations
The contribution will discuss the impact of American Theosophist Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) on the emerging "science of religion." Evans-Wentz first pursued Celtic studies, concluding in his The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Here, in line with Theosophical doctrines and Psychical Research, he claimed a "Fairyland" as "a supernormal state of consciousness into which men and women...
Community Mental Health Journal
May 2021
Tony V Pham, Rishav Koirala, Milton L Wainberg et al.
In this Fresh Focus, we reassess what the mental health treatment gap may mean if we consider the role of traditional healing. Based on systematic reviews, patients can use traditional healers and qualitatively report improvement from general psychological distress and symptom reduction for common mental disorders. Given these clinical implications, some high-income countries have scaled up...
Oriental Studies
April 21, 2021
Liudmila S. Dampilova, Ekaterina V. Sundueva
Introduction. In mythologies of the world, the image of the snake ranks among the most studied characters and has various interpretations. In folklore of Turko-Mongols, it has also been a subject of multiple analyses. Still, the article makes a first attempt at revealing the image of the snake as a taboo sacred character in ritual folklore of the Mongolic peoples. Goals. The paper primarily...
Anthropology & medicine
March 2021
James Andrew Whitaker
This paper examines bodily transformation and well-being within the context of a millenarian movement that emerged during the 1840s in the area surrounding Mount Roraima at the periphery of Brazil, Guyana (British Guiana at the time), and Venezuela. The site of this movement was Beckeranta - meaning 'Land of the Whites' - where up to 400 Amerindians were reportedly killed in a quest that is...
International journal of mental health systems
January 7, 2021
Tony V Pham, Rishav Koirala, Brandon A Kohrt
There is increasing access to mental health services in biomedical settings (e.g., primary care and specialty clinics) in low- and middle-income countries. Traditional healing continues to be widely available and used in these settings as well. Our goal was to explore how the general public, traditional healers, and biomedical clinicians perceive the different types of services and make...
Uluslararası Türk Dünyası Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi
December 28, 2020
Ümit Şengel
2 citations
The aim of this study is to examine shaman rituals in the context of culture and activity tourism. After the millennium, the tourism industry and, accordingly, international travel arrives are increasing. The most important source of this increase is dynamic demand whose demands are constantly changing. Destinations strive to respond to this dynamic demand by creating appropriate sources of...
Transcultural Psychiatry
December 1, 2020
Boon-Ooi Lee, Laurence J. Kirmayer
41 citations
This article explores the processes of transformation of the self in dang-ki healing, a form of Chinese spirit mediumship in Singapore, drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research. In dang-ki healing, it is believed that a deity possesses a human, who is called a dang-ki, to help clients (i.e., devotees). Through the dang-ki, clients can interact with powerful deities in ways that...