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Shamans: Empowered healers or psychopaths [PDF]
, 1982 Article examines the controversy over shamanic inspirication from the vantages of the leading advocates of each position. Ackerknecht is arguing that shamans are normal people filling a particular niche within their culture.
Kwiatkowski, Scott D.
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Do shamans violate notions of humanness?
, 2018 Singh proposes that shamans violate notions of humanness in patterned ways that signal supernatural capacities. I argue that his account, based on a notion of humanness that contrasts humans with non-human animals, does not capture people's ...
Nick Haslam
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Suomen Antropologi“Eric, you no longer have an Americano soul,” my Avá-Guaraní sister told me as my 2006-2007 fieldwork was ending. In 2005, her mother became my ritual sponsor in the naming/ensouling ritual, mitã karaí, identifying me as “Yvyrajú”, indicating the tree ...
Eric Michael Kelley
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El gran pago de Mulsina o el arte de mover las montañas
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2005 The local geography as it is perceived during protective rituals carried out on Taquile, a small island in Lake Titicaca, provides important data about the organization and perception of a sacred area as it is viewed by members of this insular and ...
Xavier Bellenger
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, 2019 Wallet #4 is a conversation on the relationship between fashion and space. Issue Shamans of Space is stepping into different spaces where fashion is produced, mediated, experienced and consumed as studio spaces, runway showrooms, photo studios and ...
Olsen, Elise By
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Paper Spirits and Flower Sacrifices: Hmong Shamans in the 21st Century
, 2018 Introduction: Fresno, California, is home to more than 30,000 Hmong. The purpose of this research was to explore the utilization of Hmong shamans 40 years after the first Hmong immigrants arrived in the United States.
Deborah Helsel
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery and is observed annually by African Guyanese on the first Monday in August. Celebrations provide a space to honor ancestors, express gratitude, mourn, and engage in cultural rejuvenation through communal activities such as night vigils, libation ceremonies, drumming, dancing, and pilgrimages to ...
Gillian Richards‐Greaves
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Introduction: Measuring Religiosity and Multi‐Religiosity in East and West
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 467-471, September 2026.ABSTRACT The introduction to the spotlight set of research notes that are based on the Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality briefly explains why we believe it is necessary to develop new measures of religiosity, the process of developing the questionnaire, and the key findings in this set of research notes, including the common phenomenon of
Fenggang Yang
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov +2 more
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Shamanistic Rituals to Âşıks Performances: Symbolism of Summoning Spirits
ReligionsÂşıks, 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 +2 more
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