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Tobacco visions: shamanic drawings of the Wauja Indians [PDF]

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2018
This article analyzes shamanic drawings based on research of two ethnographic collections gathered between 1978 and 2004 among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu.
Aristoteles Barcelos Neto
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Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans [PDF]

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020
Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this avoidance influences people's perceptions of leaders’ underlying traits, but few, if any, quantitative data exist testing these claims.
Manvir Singh, Joseph Henrich
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From “mind–matter” duality to “body–situation” mechanism —the phenomenology of the body on how shaman soul retrieval heals the sick [PDF]

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Background In recent years, the renewal of soul-centred shamanic soul retrieval theories has provided various theoretical interpretations of the shamanic soul retrieval phenomenon and has exacerbated the “explanatory gap” found in “mind–mater” dualism ...
Kan Feng, Mingyu Yang
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Shamans and “Dark Agencies”: War, Magical Parasitism, and Re-Enchanted Spirits in Siberia

Religions
Alleged practices of magical assault and vampirism are a recurrent feature of popular explanations of misfortune in Tuva, South Siberia. Based on a field study of healing practices in an “Association of Shamans”, this article analyses rituals of ...

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State and Shamanism in Buryatia: From Antagonism to Incorporation

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The contemporary transformation of the place and role attributed to shamanism in social structures cannot be explained in isolation from social and political trends. Goals.
Maxim S. Mikhalev
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Functions of Shamans in the Buryat Epic Tradition

Oriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. It is urgent enough to reveal original features of epic traditions in certain ethnic environments to draw a general epic picture of Central Asian peoples. As is evident, shamanism has given rise to diverse epic and poetic genres.
Natalia N. Nikolaeva, Liudmila S. Dampilova   +1 more
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Chinese Wu, Ritualists and Shamans: An Ethnological Analysis

Religions, 2023
The relationship of wu (巫) to shamanism is problematic, with virtually all mentions of historical and contemporary Chinese wu ritualists translated into English as shaman.
Michael James Winkelman
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L’épidémie de poliomyélite de 1948-1949 : chamanisme, force vitale et auto-sacrifice chez les Inuit du Kivalliq

Revue d'Études Autochtones, 2022
À l’automne 1948, une « maladie étrange » fait son apparition à Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet), un petit village de la baie d’Hudson. Les Soeurs Grises en charge de l’hôpital sont les premières à sonner l’alerte.
Frédéric Laugrand
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The image of a snake in the tales of the Altaians: ulu ‘snake-dragon’, ker-jutpa ‘chestnut swallowed’, jek-jylan ‘snake-eater’, jylan ‘snake’, moыys ‘monster-hero’, Abram-moos

Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2021
The image of the snake is one of the most common characters in the mythology of the peoples of the world. This image is also quite widely represented in the oral folk art of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples, has a variety of interpretations in its various ...
S. B. Sarbasheva
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Shamanism and cognitive evolution [Commentary on Michael Winkelman]. [PDF]

, 2002
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Humphrey, Nicholas
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