Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies
May 19, 2025
Maro Y. Malenko
The article focuses on “ethnological video games”, defined as video games which are developed on the basis of ethnographic and folkloric material. The particular focus is on the kind of ethnological games which contain representation or simulation of shamanistic practices. Among them are Mooseman based on Komi-Permyak and Finno-Ugric mythology, Never Alone based on Iñupiaq folklore, and the...
Interventions
April 23, 2025
Sampda Swaraj, Binod Mishra
Indigenous shamanic therapeutics have often been reductively construed as either religious or psychopathological phenomena within (neo)colonial academic discourses. Cutting across these reductive interpretations, this article presents a culturally embedded, decolonial exposition of Angami Naga shamanic aetiology and treatment through an ethno-literary analysis of two short stories from Avinuo...
Journal of World-Systems Research
April 17, 2025
Giacomo Otavio Tixiliski
The paper interweaves the concepts of two contemporary thinkers in order to describe the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. Based on the books Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore (2015) and The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert (2013, 2015), I identify the common, or at least approximate, meanings...
Religions
April 16, 2025
Feng Qu, Thomas Michael
In his 1993 paper published in Shaman, Shi (1993) recognized that while Chinese scholars conclude that shamanism emerged and flourished in the prehistoric period and faded in post-industrial society, they are “puzzled by its vitality today” (Shi 1993, p [...]
Journal of Sonic Studies
April 3, 2025
In the early years of the Soviet era, the music of two Russian faith traditions was forced into the shadows. Siberian shamans preserved chants and folk knowledge despite intense persecution, and Russian Orthodox monks preserved early forms of plainchant in remote monasteries away from the watchful eye of the government. Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931), herself a member of the richly-historied and...
Psychoactives
April 1, 2025
Stefano Beggiora
Since its origins, the debate on the interaction between religions and psychoactives has been strongly influenced, both positively and negatively, by prejudices, policies, fashions and trends that had little to do with scientific research. Stigma and exaltation in different historical moments have equally characterized the study of the presence and use of so-called entheogens in the different...
The Society Of Korean Oral Literature
March 31, 2025
Joonseob Yoon
Understanding the stories of different Seo-in told in Senggut in its entirety is the aim of this article. The creation myth, the god of production myth, and the flood myth—the beginning, middle, and end of Senggut—are told in Seoka Seoin, Cheonyeon Jangjaebi, and Samjeseok. The purpose of these stories is to spread Buddhism, presenting that when you no longer believe in Buddhism, a new world...
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review
March 26, 2025
Pál Koudela
Political and business leaders in South Korea are often the focus of attention these days because of their relation to shamanism. These activities are labeled superstitious and are widely condemned, though they are not new. Despite the overall condemnation, shamanistic practices among leaders, similarly to the wider population, persisted in the long run. There are two distinct parts to the...
Bulletin of Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts
March 25, 2025
T. I. Kimeeva, P. V. Abramova, N. I. Alekhina
The shaman’s tambourine, associated with the religious beliefs of the Siberian peoples, which has now received the status of a museum object and contains objects of intangible ethnocultural heritage, has now been completely lost in the environment of everyday life. The fixation of tambourines of Shor shamans by collectors of museum collections is limited to the period from 1900 to 1931. A...
The Research of the Korean Classic
February 28, 2025
HyungJung Koo
This paper analyzes the original form of a healer, focusing on the relationship between Bari and Chilsung in Hwang Seok-young’s novel Baridegi, which modernly recreates Baridegi, and suggests what a meaningful wounded healer should be like even today, when healing and healing are becoming a hot topic. In the novel Baridegi, a character named Chilsung appears, embodied in the form of a puppy, a...