Ежегодник финно-угорских исследований
September 30, 2026
G. E. Soldatova
Исследование обско-угорских фоноинструментов в контексте обрядов представляется актуальным, так как позволяет приблизиться к решению дискуссионных вопросов этнокультурной истории. Цель работы - выявление особенностей функционирования фоноинструментов и степени их включенности в ритуальную практику. Материалами послужили опубликованные источники XIX - начала XXI в., музейные коллекции открытого...
Critical humanistic social theory.
September 29, 2026
Haoyuan Zheng, Zi Yang
Xiufu (merit cultivation) is a women-centered folk belief tradition within Tunpu culture in central Guizhou. Based on fieldwork in Liuguan Township, Anshun, this study examines how Futou (female ritual leaders), Taoist priests, village elders' organizations, Dixi (local opera) troupes, spirit mediums, and ordinary believers interact across ritual practice, village governance, and cultural...
Time and Mind
September 19, 2026
Brian A. Stewart, Peter J. Mitchell
Inspired by the insights of David Lewis-Williams, rock art research has changed significantly over the past half-century. As he has shown, interpretations of hunter-gatherer rock paintings and engravings in southern Africa depend inextricably on working back and forth between the surviving imagery and its location, on the one hand, and insights from (principally San) ethnographic data on the...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
September 17, 2026
Stephan M. Freeman, Eleanor M. Landwehr, Riku Tanaka et al.
Abstract Plants in the genus Galbulimima (GB) produce a series of neuroactive alkaloids that have proven impractical to obtain and study by isolation or chemical synthesis. The role of GB extracts in traditional Papuan medicine and ritual suggests that one or more alkaloids reach the brain by ingestion; identification of potent muscarinic and opioid receptor antagonists among the GB alkaloids...
September 17, 2026
Casey Rae
Abstract Chapter Five charts how psychedelic culture and the early Grateful Dead catalyzed a new American vocabulary for transformation—spiritual, aesthetic, and political—while revealing the tensions embedded in that promise. It opens with Richard Alpert’s 1966 encounter with the Dead at the Fillmore, where Primal Dead’s volatile improvisation, light shows, and collective ecstasy suggested a...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
September 11, 2026
Darshi Arachige
This article synthesises a framework positioning the cross-cultural practice of secluding girls at puberty as a forerunner to institutionalised religion, tracing its structural roots deep into the Upper Palaeolithic. Integrating ethnographic documentation, portable art, parietal cave art, and socio-cultural history — including European shamanism and the witch cult — the synthesis argues for an...
ART AND CULTURE BULLETIN
September 6, 2026
Дмитро Помазан
The article examines the historical and ethnographic foundations of shamanism in thetraditional worldview of the Kazakh people.nbsp;
Religions
September 6, 2026
M. Suh
While Korean Protestantism prides itself on being the driving force of the nation’s modernization, it has also been criticized for promoting kibok sinang (祈福信仰), or fortune-seeking faith, allegedly rooted in the superstitious tradition of shamanism. Drawing on Robert Merton’s notion of sociological ambivalence and the East Asian literary trope of kyerŭk (鷄肋; chicken rib), something ‘too bad to...
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
September 6, 2026
Within the modern Spiritualist movement, mediums are central figures who work to connect physical and spirit worlds. By attempting to provide evidence of the survival of the human spirit after physical death, conveying caring messages from the spirit world, and giving hope to recipients, mediums pursue a spiritual mission. In this paper, I consider two models of mediumship: Wilson's argument...
Editions des archives contemporaines eBooks
September 3, 2026
Christian Ghasarian
Cette communication traite des représentations, discours et pratiques liés à l’absorption de plantes psychotropes, initialement employées dans les contextes shamaniques à travers le monde et désormais réappropriées dans le cadre d’une quête de soi dans les sociétés post-industrielles. Après un bref retour sur les circonstances socioculturelles et les raisons individuelles de ces investissements...