Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture
September 28, 2024
M. Said, A. Ismail, Andi Batara et al.
The practitioner of the shamanic system among the Bugis-Makassar people in Indonesia is known as dukun or sanro, a person believed has a supranatural power, using their power either to help others or bringing harm, such as disease”. This is an interpretative-descriptive anthropological research. We made observations by directly observing, listening, and recording events related to the problem....
ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА
September 25, 2024
Ямпольская Е.к.
В данной статье произведен обзор имеющихся в научной литературе музыковедческих материалов, в которых опубликованы шаманские мелодии селькупов, а также приведены сведения о неопубликованных коллекциях. Актуальность данной работы связана с критическим состоянием языка и культуры северных и южных селькупов, а также необходимостью введения в научный оборот всех имеющихся по обрядовой культуре...
Religions
September 24, 2024
Konstantinos Zorbas
1 citation
Alleged practices of magical assault and vampirism are a recurrent feature of popular explanations of misfortune in Tuva, South Siberia. Based on a field study of healing practices in an “Association of Shamans”, this article analyses rituals of redressing curse afflictions in the context of Russian political domination. A central purpose of this discussion is to foreground the centrality of...
Journal of Ethnobiology
September 22, 2024
James Andrew Whitaker, Vikram Tamboli, Lewis Daly et al.
8 citations
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic...
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
September 18, 2024
Diego Rivera-Illanes, Gonzalo Recabarren-Gajardo
17 citations
Muscimol (3) is a psychoactive isoxazole present in various Amanita mushrooms, along with ibotenic acid and muscarine. It is structurally related to GABA and acts as a GABAA agonist with great affinity. Muscimol use dates back to Siberian shamanic cultures as an entheogen, where it was ingested orally to exert psychoactive effects. Although not approved for clinical use, its potential and use...
September 3, 2024
Michael Utsch
Abstract Experiences of possession are interpreted differently according to cultural and psychological contexts. Parapsychology attempts to understand the phenomena associated with possession at the level of generalized quantum theory. In fundamentalist Christian circles the human soul is understood within a dualistic framework in which demonic and divine powers are engaged in a constant battle...
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
September 1, 2024
Giulio Ongaro
Abstract:Philosophical speculation about how psychiatric externalism might function in practice has yet to fully consider the multitude of externalist psychiatric systems that exist beyond the bounds of modern psychiatry. Believing that anthropology can inform philosophical debate on the matter, the paper illustrates one such case. The discussion is based on 19 months of first-hand ethnographic...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
September 1, 2024
Dendup Chophel
Abstract:Focusing on a detailed ethnography of mediumship in a Bhutanese village with a well-established religious pluralism, this paper examines the sociality and ‘indigenous historiographic’ tradition of a marginal ritual as a way of deconstructing sedimented and forgotten histories. It argues that the shamanic ritual is both formulaic, allowing for mimetic retention of history, and...
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
September 1, 2024
Isabell Herrmans
Abstract: Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyses the nature of spirit communication among the Luangan Dayak of Indonesian Borneo through examples from their shamanic healing rituals ( belian ). It presents two dialogic encounters between humans and spirits — one centered on games played with them, and another on the possession of a shaman by the spirits — and discusses...
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
September 1, 2024
Svět Lustig Vijay, Magdalena Harris, Fabio Friso et al.
1 citation
Ayahuasca, an entheogen from the Amazon rainforest, has garnered growing interest for treating substance dependence. To date, there is little research concerning the act of ayahuasca-related purging (mainly vomiting), which is considered to be central to healing during ayahuasca rituals. This study explored practitioner perspectives on purging during ayahuasca rituals at the Takiwasi Center in...