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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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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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Scripta 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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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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Tuvan (neo) shamanism as a religious and healing practice in contemporary world
Новые 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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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
Human 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
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Medicine Bulletin, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2024 International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorders brought together clinicians, researchers, advocates, and service‐user representatives to discuss recent developments in functional neurological disorder and related functional disorders.
Yadira Velazquez‐Rodriquez +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract There is rising recognition of resource‐use rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) within wildlife conservation. Historically, sociocultural institutions ensured wildlife sustainability in many IPLC areas. However, the future viability of such institutions is uncertain as IPLCs change in response to external pressures and ...
Sahil Nijhawan +5 more
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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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