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Shamans study shamanism: The world in the podcasts of Mongolian shamans [PDF]
Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, DoświadczeniaThe article analyses the social media activity of selected Mongolian shamans intended for dissemination of what they believe to be the correct knowledge about Mongolian shamanism. The Internet is a tool that, combined with their own creativity, allows themto convey aspects of this phenomenon that are difficult to verbalize. On the one hand, the shamans
Tangad, Oyungerel
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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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Formation of Soviet Medical Care to Indigenous Minorities of Turukhansk Territory in the 1920s
Журнал Фронтирных ИсследованийDue to the specifics of its geographical and climatic location, historically formed disease structure, ethnic approach to the development of traditional medical culture, the North territories’ population possesses a range of characteristics significantly
Tatyana A. Kattsina, Lyudmila E. Mezit
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CULTURE, RITUALS AND NATURE: EXPERIENCES OF MYSTICAL TOURISM IN NORTHERN PERU [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and GeositesThis study explored cultural tourist experiences of Andean rituals on Peru's northern coast using ethnographic methods. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 65 participants, field notes, and observations of interactions among ...
Miguel Angel RUIZ-PALACIOS +5 more
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Shamanism in Contemporary Norway: Concepts in Conflict
Religions, 2018 To choose a terminology for an investigation of shamanism in contemporary Norway is not entirely without problems. Many shamans are adamant in rejecting the term religion in connection with their practices and choose broader rubrics when describing what ...
Trude Fonneland
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Engendering Performance in the Late Iron Age
Current Swedish Archaeology, 1999 This paper deals with humanoid figures on gold foils from the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia. Interpreted as figures wearing masks, an effort is made to show the complexity, importance and significance of masking practices.
lng-Marie Back Danielsson
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L’agentivité métaphorique dans les incantations des Yucuna d’Amazonie colombienne
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2016 Yucuna incantations are mumbled in a low voice and without an audience, as are those of the Desana described by Dominique Buchillet to question Lévi-Strauss’s explanation of symbolic efficiency.
Laurent Fontaine
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Bridging Spiritual Healing with Occupational Identity: Perspectives of Hmong Shamans [PDF]
Hmong Studies JournalOccupational Therapy Practitioners (OTPs) can serve as a bridge between Western medicine and traditional healing by educating health professionals about the role of Hmong shamans.
Mai Moua, Alysha Skuthan
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Mäetagused, 2012 Nikolay Kuznetsov conducted an interview with Hungarian folklorist and ethnologist Mihály Hoppál on the threshold of his 70th jubilee.
Nikolay Kuznetsov
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Reseña a Shamans of the foye Tree: Gender power and healing among Chilean Mapuche
Revista Pueblos y Fronteras Digital, 2013 Reseña a Shamans of the foye Tree: Gender power and healing among Chilean Mapuche, 2007, de Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, ISBN 978-0-292-71659-9.
Jennifer Hale–Gallardo
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