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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 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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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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The social functions of shamanism
, 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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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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Social Context of the fujo: Shamanism in Japan through a Female Perspective
Asian 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
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Thick red line indicates positive mixture effect of stressors predicting high irritability class. Maternal demoralization, material hardship, maternal perceived stress, and intimate partner violence contributed to the mixture effect (thick borders on boxes).
Mariah DeSerisy +8 more
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Spontaneous zonal symmetry breaking of tropical rain belt
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.Precipitable‐water snapshots show how a sea surface temperature (SST)‐forced tropical rain belt can remain zonally elongated or spontaneously reorganize into a localized convective cluster. The simulations identify the SST conditions favoring this zonal convective self‐aggregation and relate the transition to changes in boundary‐layer circulation and ...
Tomoro Yanase, Cathy Hohenegger
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
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