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Shamanism: A Reader

open access: yes, 2003
Shamanism has been practised amongst communities all over the world for millennia, and continues to survive today in both modern and ancient forms. Shamanism: A Reader unites perspectives from disciplines including anthropology, psychology, musicology ...

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Resonant Spaces: Electroacoustic Music and Ritual: A commentary on my recent music. [PDF]

open access: yes
The following portfolio and commentary concerns music and performance works created between 2008 and 2012, and an exposition of the research, ideas, aesthetics and techniques that connect these works.
Fawcus, Jamie
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The cultural evolution of shamanism

open access: yes, 2023
Shamans, including medicine-men, mediums, and the prophets of religious movements, recur across human societies. Shamanism also existed among nearly all documented hunter-gatherers, likely characterized the religious lives of many ancestral humans, and ...
Manvir Singh
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Shamanism in Indo-European mythologies [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy 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 : vad är det?

open access: yes, 2004
Syftet jag har med min uppsats är att ge fyra olika perspektiv på fenomenet shamanism för att komma närmare svaret på min fråga: Vad är shamanism för något?
Johansson, Anette
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Social Context of the fujo: Shamanism in Japan through a Female Perspective

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2015
This study deals with the phenomenon of shamanism in Japan with the emphasis on the female perspective and the fact that women, in the first place, have dealt with shamanistic practices in Japan since ancient times. Could we say that shamanism was a tool
Iva LAKIĆ PARAĆ
doaj   +1 more source

Eskimo shamanism

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967
Shamans and shamanistic performances have been described from almost all parts of the Eskimo world, from the Pacific Ocean and Bering Strait to East Greenland, and to judge from the records it seems that the position and traditional functions of the ...
Erik Holtved
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The social functions of shamanism

open access: yes, 2018
Cultural evolutionary accounts of shamanism must explain the cross-cultural recurrence and variation in associated practices. We suggest that Singh's account of shamanism would be strengthened by considering the social functions of shamanism in groups ...
Rachel E. Watson-Jones   +1 more
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Tuvan (neo) shamanism as a religious and healing practice in contemporary world

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2018
The article examines present-day cultural and religious situation of the Tuvans in the republic of Tuva, as well as its implications in different countries.
Valentina I. Kharitonova
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