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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 drum in Shamanism: some reflections
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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Koreański szamanizm – religia pojednania i współistnienia [PDF]
, 2014 This article is to explain the basic rules of Korean shamanism. First the religious views of Koreans are presented. The importance of harmony in the lives of Koreans is highlighted. It is stressed that the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism do
Kyong-geun, Oh
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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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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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Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Nepal: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
, 2019 Despite extensive ethnographic and qualitative research on traditional healers in Nepal, the role of traditional healers in relation to mental health has not been synthesized.
Franz, Lauren +6 more
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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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Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 The paper analyzes shamanic cosmology. It is un-Indo-European in its principles and rather typical of Siberian people. The first part describes the ecstatic trances and the cosmological World Tree or Axis mundi, the combination of which is typical of ...
Fournet, A.
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Toward a neurophysiological foundation for altered states of consciousness [PDF]
, 2018 Singh's cultural evolutionary theory posits that methods of inducing shamanic altered states of consciousness differ, resulting in profoundly different cognitive states.
Jennings, Carolyn, Tabatabaeian, Shadab
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