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[Review of] Silvester Brito. Red Cedar Warrior [PDF]

, 1988
Red Cedar Warrior, the collection of poems by S.J. Brito, is very obvious in its depiction of trepidations against Native Americans, in its mourning for the loss of culture and traditions, and its expression of anger.
Ortiz, Simon J.
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Covert Institutionality: Sacred Mountains, Witches and Exorcists

Phenomenology and Mind, 2016
I develop an account of covert institutional facts by examining sacred objects, witches, shamans and exorcists. I present an account of sacred objects as covert institutional entities, and distinguish between true beliefs that help create the ...
Filip Buekens
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Who gives innate gifts? Cognitive and cultural approaches to Turkic South Siberian shamanism [PDF]

, 2007
In Siberia a lot of a facts confirm an essentialist interpretation of shamanism: frequent distinction between genuine and false shamans, physical particularities, like illness, attributed to shamans, absence of initiation, and hereditary mode of ...
Stépanoff, Charles
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Shamanistic Rituals to Âşıks Performances: Symbolism of Summoning Spirits

Religions
Âşıks, renowned for their adeptness at improvisational poetry, are viewed as the inheritors of certain shamanic functions within historical contexts. Originally, shamans assumed diverse roles encompassing poetry, medicine, and priesthood before social ...
Ünsal Yılmaz Yeşildal, Banu Güzelderen, Fatih Düzgün   +2 more
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Shamans’ gardens: sites of creative equivocation between Indigenous and internationalized ayahuasca shamanism

Journal de la Société des Américanistes
If ayahuasca shamanism is now well studied, the medicinal plant gardens that form a standard element of ayahuasca centers have received less attention.
Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Stephen Hugh-Jones   +1 more
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Transcending time and place in the context of Covid-19

Ciencias Sociales y Religión, 2021
During 2020, because of Covid-related restrictions, opportunities to travel to sacred heritage sites dramatically decreased and Pagans’ and shamans’ gatherings and rituals necessarily moved online.
Kathryn Rountree
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Making Visible the Invisible Power of Community [PDF]

, 2010
Outlines the need to strengthen the organic infrastructure and culture of rural communities in development work to allow for adaptations that preserve connectedness and enhance social health.
Hanmin Liu
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The lady who served the potion: botanical symbolism behind the mysteries of Eleusis [PDF]

, 2019
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Ruck, Carl
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[Review of] Vinson Brown. Native Americans of the Pacific Coast [PDF]

, 1988
In the introduction to Native Americans of the Pacific Coast, Vinson Brown presents many admirable ambitions for any scholar writing on human existence. Brown proclaims that he will attempt to make the first Americans live in the style of the 1500s to ...
Oandasan, William
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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 ...
Konstantinos Zorbas
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