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Two Faces of the Manchu Shaman: “Participatory Observation” in Western and Chinese Contexts
Religions, 2018 Russian anthropologist Shirokogoroff and Chinese ethnographers have provided different understandings of Manchu shamanism. The former approach is centered in the psychological dimension based on the Western context while the latter approach focuses on ...
Feng Qu
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1987-2002, June 2026.Abstract Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship. While scientific data frame ecological crises, literary traditions offer a unique archive for tracing the history of this empathetic bond. This study positions
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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The Conflicts and Compromises of the Two Cosmologies Making Korean Shamanism
ReligionsThis article explores how the unique cosmology of Korean shamanism, which continues to function as a living religion in contemporary Korea, has been shaped.
Dongkyu Kim
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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The Reflection of Shamanism in South Korean Television Series [PDF]
EonThis study explores the representation of Korean shamanism in South Korean television series (K-dramas) and examines how these productions contribute to the preservation and promotion of shamanic traditions in the context of globalization.
Paula-Grațiela CERNAMORIȚ
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La formation du chamanisme amazonien au Brésil : guérisseurs, leadership et pouvoir rituel
Brésil(s)This article examines some of the transformations in the ritual and religious life of indigenous societies over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries who lived in the Eastern Amazon.
Mark Harris
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Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.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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Konteks Budaya Gambar Binatang pada Seni Cadas di Sulawesi Selatan
Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya, 2015 This article is based on a thesis with the same title on Archaeology Magister Program, Universitas Indonesia. This research relies on structuralist approach assuming that artists have potential choices to select motifs according to their artistic ...
Yosua Adrian Pasaribu
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.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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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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