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Images of Shamans and a Werewolf Girl in the Khakass’ Heroic Epic
We have considered the images of shamans and a werewolf girl in the Khakass’ heroic epic. The appearance of the images of shamans and female shamans is due to the influence of shamanism, which has been developed among all the peoples in Siberia. There is
Natalya V. Mainagasheva
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]
Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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A Swedish female folk healer from the beginning of the 18th century
Catharina Fagerberg was a tailor's daughter from Marbäck in Småland, South-Sweden, where she was born in 1700. For a period of seven years she was afflicted with severe vexations of spirit, and was visited by blasphemous and murderous thoughts.
Carl-Martin Edsman
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A Study on the Xiuxing of Contemporary Horchin Mongolian Shamanism
Research has been carried out on the procedures for recruiting and training shamans among the Horchin (mainly in Tongliao City, China). This well-known problem is crucial to the development of Horchin shamanism.
Yumin Lun, Xiaomei Dong
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Why do religious leaders observe costly prohibitions? Examining taboos on Mentawai shamans
Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this avoidance influences people's perceptions of leaders’ underlying traits, but few, if any, quantitative data exist testing these claims.
Manvir Singh, Joseph Henrich
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Charisma, Shamanism and Cults: The Construction of Evil [PDF]
This is an unpublished article.
Lindholm, Charles
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Few people in North American academia are more knowledgeable about Islam in Southeast Asia, and especially in Indonesia, than Howard Federspiel. The forte of his own research contributions lays not so much in innovative analyses as in presenting ...
Carool Kersten
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Nature-human relations in Shamanism and other ancient Turkic literature
Shamanism has been a rich belief system in ancient Turkic history. The shamans considered the heavenly god to be a supernatural force. The shamanistic worldview, which regulates the relationship between spirits and people and is based on practical ...
MAHMUDOV YUSUF MUHAMMEDOĞLU
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Old Testament Prophets and Shamans: Comparison of the Phenomena (Anthropological Approach)
The article provides a comparative analysis of the phenomena of Old Testament prophets and shamans against five key aspects: their social status, calling, intermediation, fortune-telling and magic, rituals and cosmogony, and gender.
A. V. Andreev, A. B. Gasymov
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Kandan, a traditional oral genre of the Uut Danum of West Kalimantan [PDF]
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Couderc, Paskal
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