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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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To Play with Spirits: Fluidity and Distinction in Role-Playing Game Shamans

, 2017
Shamans, a category of spiritual specialist that bridges this world and others to heal, are fixtures in many cultures and religions across the world. Meanwhile, tabletop roleplaying games are a storied pastime which transports participants to fanciful ...
Ohsfeldt, Michael Edward
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To Play with Spirits: Fluidity and Distinction in Role-Playing Game Shamans

, 2018
Shamans, a category of spiritual specialist that bridges this world and others to heal, are fixtures in many cultures and religions across the world. Meanwhile, tabletop roleplaying games are a storied pastime which transports participants to fanciful ...
Ohsfeldt, Michael Edward
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Repression of shamans and shamanism in Khabarovsk Krai : 1920s to the early 1950s

, 2017
Repression of ‘Shamans’ in the Soviet ...
Bulgakova, Tatiana, Sundström, Olle
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Nanai Fairytales about the Cruel Bride

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011
Fairytale plots are studied in the present article in the context of the shamanic practise of the Nanai people; they are mainly dealt with from an emic perspective.
Tatiana Bulgakova
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The first practisings of drama: Turkish shamans

, 2010
Batı’da tiyatro ve drama tarihi üzerinde yapılan araştırmalar daha çok Çin ve Yunan kaynaklarına dayanır. Orta Asya’daki Türk kültürü her nedense bu tiyatro ve drama tarihi çalışmalarının dışında tutulmuş ya da atlanmıştır.
Kara, Ömer Tuğrul
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Shamans of the East: ritual songs of the Himalayan Kulung Shamanic Tradition

, 2013
The CD presents two of the most characteristic liturgical songs still widespread in the shamanic tradition of the Kulung Tibeto-Burman minority of eastern Nepal.
Nicoletti, Martino
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Ficto-Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Tan C.
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Comparative Ethnomedicinal Knowledge and Medicinal Plant Use among Indigenous Communities in Southwestern China and Northern Pakistan. [PDF]

Pak J Med Sci
Tong Z, Jiying D, Qiumei Q.
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Shamanism [PDF]

Ecumenica, 2014
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