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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
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中国東北シャーマニズムの現状と課題 ―エヴェンキ族のシャーマニズム文化とその近代化を例として― [PDF]
This study delves into the cultural and religious practices of the Evenki people, focusing particularly on their shamanism and totem worship. Shamanism, originating in the cold regions of Northern Asia, Northern Europe, and North America, is a natural ...
二ノ宮聡, 小野田亮, 50735016
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Kulturní Studia, 2018 This article considers the purpose of shamanism in the postmodern age. It explores why Western tourists travel to the shamans of the Amazon to participate in the shamanic ritual with ayahuasca. The field research focuses mainly on a description of Amazon
Sylvie Abbasová
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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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Tamburi nella steppa: saggio sullo sciamanismo mongolo-buriato [PDF]
Ethnorêma, 2012 The purpose of the present article is to analyze some salient features with regard to Mongolian and Central Asian shamanism. Following some preliminary considerations concerning the origin of Shamanism in general, here codified as a pre-religious ...
Stefano Beggiora
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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Refutation and Desire: European Perceptions of Shamanism in the Late Eighteenth Century [PDF]
, 2012 The article discusses learned debates that evolved at the end of the eighteenth century in Europe about the interpretation of shamanism. Intellectuals, philosophers, and enlightened monarchs engaged in controversies about shamanism that were clearly ...
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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, November 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how Indigenous Paĩ Tavyterã/Kaiowa communities along the Paraguay–Brazil border navigate illicit economies that have proliferated amid the expansion of soybean agribusiness and the withdrawal of the state. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork in several communities on both sides of the border, it explores how ...
Paul Fabié
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Contemporary Korean shamanism from ritual to digital
, 2021 "Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans-who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed-are going mainstream.
Sarfati, Liora
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