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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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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, Ш. М. Сaрсен   +1 more
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The Double Identities of the Shaman and the Dualistic Attitudes of the State: An Exploration of Contemporary Organizational Shamanism in Northeast China

Religions
This paper presents a case study of the first shamanic organization in China and argues that organizational shamanism in Northeast China is characterized by the double identities of the shaman and the dualistic attitudes of the national authorities.
Feng Qu
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Shamanism with a drum among the Khanty of the Surgut Ob River region in the beginning of the 21st century [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The area of this research is confined to the Surgut Ob River region and includes the western and central areas of residence of the Eastern Khanty. The purpose of this work is to summarize and analyse information about the current state of shamanism with ...
Rud’ A.A.
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Researcher Positionality and Relational Power: Playing With ‘Researching Up’ and ‘Researching Down’ in Critical Reflexivity

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Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
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Shamanism and Christianity: Models of Religious Encounters in East Asia

Religions
When exploring interactions between Christianity and other religions in East Asia, the place given to the shamanic tradition remains ambiguous and marginal.
Yang Li
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Chrysalis: Shamanic Discovery [PDF]

, 2015
Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth ...
Chambers, Lauren
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis

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Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
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Shaman or Showman? The Myths of Jim Morrison From an Aesthetic Anthropological Perspective

Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2022
The study deals with the concepts of Jim Morrison’s art from the perspective of Jim Morrison’s myth especially his “self-made shamanism”. Jim Morrison created a “personal shamanism” that basically determined his art and image. The study explores how and
Richard Papp
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