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Study of Religion 2025 S. Bereznitsky
The activity and creativity of Svetlana Zarasyevna Hodger, a Nanai craftswoman and storyteller, help her relatives solve various life problems. This article investigates the influence of her lucid dreams on the process of creating works of art and crafts, which have long been of interest to ethnographers, art historians, and local historians in Russia. Her works have been presented in...
Schole Ancient philosophy and the classical tradition 2025 Maria Durova
The Far Eastern tradition included a variety of religious rites and mystical practices, thanks to which people experienced unity with nature and the universe. Unlike the mystery cults of ancient Greece, the goal of these practices was not individual contact with the sacred, but the maintenance of the universal world order and the common good. Apparently, for the entire vast region of East Asia,...
Skhid 2025 V. Shchepanskyi
The article analyzes the anthropological and religious aspects of Mark Egart's travel essays, which focus on the indigenous peoples of Altai during the Soviet collectivization of the 1930s. His book “The Ferry: Sketches of the Struggle for Socialism in the Altai Mountains” (1932) is examined as a valuable source that combines literary and ethnographic techniques to illuminate the profound...
2025 Richard G. Alexander
AbstractThis chapter explores the city of Iquitos, Peru, as a dramaturgical setting for ayahuasca ‘shamanism’ tourism. It examines how foreign tourists and local actors co-construct narrative meanings around ayahuasca experiences through cultural, economic, and symbolic exchange. The chapter critiques motivational typologies in previous studies, arguing for a more nuanced, narrative-based...
Problems of Archaeology Ethnography Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories 2025 Z. Orozbekova
This article overviews the written sources on religious beliefs and funeral rituals of the Kyrgyz people of the Tien Shan from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period. The study draws on the works of historians, poets, travelers, and anonymous authors, written in various languages and translated by V.V. Bartold, Z.N. Vorozheykina, O. Karaev, and other scholars. Analysis of these sources provides...
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Research 2025 Vandana Wahengbam
Magical flight and medium possession are two crucial experiences in the realm of Amaibis (Shamanism). While the former speaks of imagined and visual experiences of events occurring in other realms, the latter speaks of embodied experiences of giving up one's identity and mental control to an otherworldly entity. During rituals of Lai tongba (shamanic possession) in Umang Lai Haraoba1, spirits...
Problems of Archaeology Ethnography Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories 2025 V. A. Burnakov
In the culture of the Khakass people trees are not only the most important economic resource, but also a key structuring symbol. The tree has extremely wide semantic field. In the traditional consciousness of the Khakass people, the symbolic status and functions of the tree are determined by its perception as an object endowed with special properties, belonging simultaneously to the profane and...
IMA fungus 2025 Mara Ximena Haro-Luna, Felipe Ruan-Soto, Virginia Ramírez-Cruz et al. 2 citations
The use of psychoactive Psilocybe mushrooms as entheogens by the Mazatecs of Oaxaca became known to the world in 1957. While the Mazatec Region has been the focus of research, historical records indicate that other indigenous groups in Mexico, including the Zapotecs, also used these mushrooms for ceremonial and medicinal purposes. However, the linguistic, cultural and ecological diversity of...
The American Journal of Bioethics 2025 Logan Neitzke-Spruill, Caroline Beit, Lynnette A. Averill et al. 19 citations
In August 2024, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected Lykos Therapeutics, Inc.'s new drug application for midomafetamine with psychological intervention (MDMA-AT) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among the many issues raised during review was concern about a highly publicized case of alleged sexual misconduct by an unlicensed therapist during a Phase 2 study of MDMA and...
Северо-Восточный гуманитарный вестник December 28, 2024 Т.ю. Сем, Е.к. Карелина
Статья посвящена этнографическому описанию шаманских костюмов народа саха, хранящихся в Российском этнографическом музее (г. Санкт-Петербург). Исследование посвящено семиотическому освещению костюмов, каждый из которых обладал уникальной особенностью и индивидуальностью. Предлагается тезис о том, что шаманизм основывается на культе предков и связан с культами земли и неба, солнца и луны и т.д....