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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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IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 The article is devoted to the influence of Eastern religions: shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism on landscape art in China. The influence of each particular religion on traditional gardens was considered.
D. Tceluiko
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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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Shamanism and cognitive evolution [Commentary on Michael Winkelman]. [PDF]
, 2002 Non
Humphrey, Nicholas
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Current Neuropharmacology, 2017 Background: Evolutionary research on drug abuse has hitherto been restricted to proximate studies, considering aetiology, mechanism, and ontogeny. However, in order to explain the recent emergency of a new behavioral pattern (e.g. ‘the e-psychonaut style’
L. Orsolini +5 more
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Charisma, Shamanism and Cults: The Construction of Evil [PDF]
, 2012 This is an unpublished article.
Lindholm, Charles
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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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The Evolution of Chinese Shamanism: A Case Study from Northwest China
Religions, 2018 This paper presents information on the shamanic religious system practiced among the Tu ethnic group of Qinghai Province in Northwest China. After presenting ethnographic information on the spirit beliefs, rituals, and shamanic specialists of the Tu, the
H. Xing, G. Murray
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