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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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VISITING DEAD ANCESTORS: SHAMANS AS INTERPRETERS OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

Zygon, 1994
. Religious traditions enable ancestors to encourage proper social behavior in their distant descendants. Although traditional myths and rituals can provide basic values, these values must be interpreted in light of the specific circumstances ...
Craig T Palmer
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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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Exploring Hmong Shamans' Beliefs on Cancer. [PDF]

Psychooncology
Background Cancer incidence among Hmong Americans has increased significantly since the early 2000s. Familiarity with and understanding of the disease is low due to limited exposure in countries of origin, lack of terminology ...
Yambao Yang Y, Yang M, Burke N.
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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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Why Prophets Are (Not) Shamans? [PDF]

, 2020
The article explores the interface of prophecy and shamanhood from the point of view of intermediation, divination, and magic; performance and cosmology; gender; and social status.
Nissinen, Martti
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A Visitor's Guide to Shamans and Shamanism [PDF]

Sibirica, 2020
In the late imperial era, the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) in St. Petersburg produced a series of guidebooks for visitors that provided an account of the changes in the gallery spaces and collections within the museum. Among the changes was a reorganization of the collection that brought about the removal of a gallery ...
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Indigenous history. Shamans and mythopractice [PDF]

, 2020
The article discusses issues of reproducing history, that is, indigenous strategies and mechanisms of constructing historical narrative among the Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes. The indigenous historical practices are based on Inca myths and local tales
Przytomska, Anna
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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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