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Indigenous and Trans-cultural Shamanism in Italy [PDF]

, 2020
Shamanism is a growing religious movement in Italy and manifests itself in two main forms. The first is trans-cultural shamanism, a cross-cultural set of practices inspired by one or multiple indigenous traditions, which get ‘translated’ when imported ...
Puca, Angela
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"Even Teenagers Practiced Shamanism": Routine of Shamanism in Yakutia in 1920s as Described in the Autonomous Yakutia Newspaper

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The article describes the social role of shamanism in Yakutia in the 1920s. The newspaper of Autonomous Yakutia served as the main source. The research is the first-of-its-kind attempt to study Yakut shamanism as a socio-cultural phenomenon based on a ...
N. V. Tikhomirov
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Birds of Prey, Birds of Wisdom: Relating to Non-Humans in Contemporary Western-Based Shamanism

Religions, 2022
Birds of prey appear frequently in contemporary forms of shamanism. For example, Michael Harner’s Core Shamanism references the ‘power animal,’ or the authentic self, which sometimes takes the form of a strong and benevolent eagle. However, precisely how
Carolina Ivanescu, Nienke Groskamp
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The Kichwa of Sarayaku Case at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Legal Pluralism, Identity and Citizenship in a Context of Extractivism

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between a universal approach to law and the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights. The struggle for citizenship in a situation of extractivism and land dispossession demonstrates how identity is mobilized to obtain and attribute rights. The focus of this study is
Elisabeth Cunin
wiley   +1 more source

Psychosis is episodically required for the enduring integrity of shamanism

, 2018
The target article advances several original concepts about shamanism, including prospective explanations for how shamanism could express itself in different cultural settings. Although the potential for “innate psychological tendencies” is acknowledged,
Joseph Polimeni
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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Chamanisme féminin « contre nature » ? Menstruation, gestation et femmes chamanes parmi les Shipibo-Conibo de l’Amazonie occidentale

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2006
« Counter-natural » female shamanism? Menstruation, gestation and female shamans among the Shipibo-Conibo of Western Amazonia. Amazonian shamanism is often described as a male social role from which women are ‘naturally’ excluded because of taboos ...
Anne-Marie Colpron
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Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Liberal Democratic Attitudes?

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between Islam and democracy remains contested. Although some scholars argue that the two are inherently incompatible, others maintain that they can coexist harmoniously. Although the existing literature includes a growing number of empirical studies testing these competing claims, many are constrained by limitations in data ...
Zeki Sarigil
wiley   +1 more source

Canela Shamanism: Shamans’ Accounts, “Journeying,” and Delimitation of Shamanic Terms

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2017
In this article I recount the stories of various shamans I have worked with throughout many decades of fieldwork among the Ramkokamekra-Canela (Eastern Timbira) of central Maranhão state, Brazil. Along with their narratives, I provide ethnographic context in order to address the following questions: (1) Who is a shaman? (2) What is shamanism?
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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