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The drum in Shamanism: some reflections [PDF]
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1991 Shamanism has not been restricted to northern Eurasia and the American Arctic, although it was here that it received its most remarkable forms. It is thus central to consider whether the drum is an integrative part of shamanism and should be examined ...
Åke Hultkrantz
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The change in the researcher’s position in the study of shamanism
Approaching Religion, 2022 Since the 1960s, shamanism has become one of the landmarks for a new way of life and a more respectful relationship of humans with nature in the Western world.
Jaana Kouri, Elina Hytönen-Ng
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A Visitor's Guide to Shamans and Shamanism [PDF]
Sibirica, 2020 In the late imperial era, the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) in St. Petersburg produced a series of guidebooks for visitors that provided an account of the changes in the gallery spaces and collections within the museum. Among the changes was a reorganization of the collection that brought about the removal of a gallery ...
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Entre lógicas cinegéticas y agrícolas: el chamanismo nahua en una cosmología de sacrificio
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2022 Mesoamerican forms of shamanism have rarely been discussed in international academic debates. Through ethnographic information collected in the Sierra de Texcoco, in Mexico, what might be called a Nahua shamanic tradition is analyzed in light of the ...
David Lorente Fernández
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The snake and zig-zag motifs in Finnish rock paintings and Saami drums
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1991 In articles about Finnish rock paintings particular attention has been paid to the significance of shamanism. The emphasis on shamanism leads in practice to the conclusion that a composition in which there is a man and a snake, or a snake like zig-zag ...
Eero Autio
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A.B. Anokhin's letter “On shamanism among the Altai tribes” [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 The paper is dedicated to Andrey Viktorovich Anokhin, a renowned scholar of shamanism of the Turkic peoples of Siberia. The paper precedes publication of A.V. Anokhin's letter to ethnographer Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg discovered in the St.
Malinov A.V.
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Religions, 2023 Qixiang is a unique sacrificial culture created by the Han army eight banners in northeast China. This culture not only has elements such as shamanism and Han people burning incense, but also has military sacrificial elements.
Lina Zhao, De Zheng
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Durkheim’s totemic principle, shamanism and Southern African San religions
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 The study reappraised Emile Durkheim’s totemic principle in relation to the origins of religion and culture, using, amongst others, speech act theory and recent southern African epistemologies, especially David Lewis-Williams’ theory of shamanism ...
Richard A. Northover
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Is the shaman indeed risen in post-Soviet Siberia?
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2012 In his exhaustive study of ‘shamanism’ among the Altaic peoples in Southern Siberia, the renowned Soviet ethnographer Leonid P. Potapov contends that ‘under the present conditions there are no remnants or survivals of Shamanism as such left in Altai ...
Olle Sundström
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Is There a Shaman in the House? [PDF]
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2010 This nonfictional narrative recounts a story of shared decision making between a veteran neurosurgeon and the family of a comatose patient who had suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. After reviewing the option of surgery within the context of informed consent, the family remains frozen in indecision.
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