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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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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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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Historical Dictionary of Shamanism
, 2004 Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imaginations as shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds, shamans have conversed with animals and ancestors and have been empowered with the knowledge to heal patients, advise ...
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Функция музыкaльных инструментов в шaмaнизме у тюркских нaродов
Әл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2018 Before the adoption of Islam, the Turkic peoples practiced shamanism and Tengry.. Traditional musical instruments are one of the most complex and important forms of historical ethnography.
Г. К. Кортaбaевa +1 more
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Dualism in Yakut Shamanic Practices
Oriental StudiesIntroduction. Yakut shamanism is an important aspect of traditional culture that specifically articulates certain customary beliefs. The paper analyzes various approaches to understanding shamanism, including evolutionist theory, a constructivist ...
Anatoliy I. Gogolev +4 more
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Art and Shamanism: From Cave Painting to the White Cube
Religions, 2019 Art and shamanism are often represented as timeless, universal features of human experience, with an apparently immutable relationship. Shamanism is frequently held to represent the origin of religion and shamans are characterized as the first artists ...
Robert J. Wallis
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
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