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Simulacra, 2021 Festival is a product of a culture that develops according to the needs and times, including the Taylagan Festival. Taylagan Festival is one of the most important annual rituals for the Russian Buryat Shamans.
Rania Ayu Shila Febriani Adari +1 more
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A Study on the Xiuxing of Contemporary Horchin Mongolian Shamanism
Religions, 2019 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
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 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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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2009 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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Self-denial by shamans promotes perceptions of religious credibility
, 2023 Religious leaders refrain from sex and food across human societies. Researchers argue that this self-denial promotes perceptions of credibility, invoking such associations in explanations of shamanism and prosocial religion, but few, if any, quantitative
Joseph Henrich, Manvir Singh
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Nature-human relations in Shamanism and other ancient Turkic literature
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 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)
Концепт: философия, религия, культураThe 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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, 2013 Not Quite Shamans is a welcome contribution to the literature on the occult and supernatural, shamanism, postsocialism, and Mongolia. Morten Axel Pedersen conducted his fieldwork in northern Mongolia—in Shishged Depression among Darhads, who are famous ...
Buyandelger, Manduhai +1 more
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Devouring Perspectives: On Cannibal Shamans in Siberia
, 2009 Throughout Siberia, shamans are suspected of 'devouring' other humans. This article, based on ethnographic literature about Siberian peoples and on fieldwork conducted in Tuva, examines different theoretical interpretations of this conception.
Charles Stépanoff
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Examination of Shamans as Cultural Leaders in the Hmong American Communities [PDF]
, 2021 Leadership in the world today is under crisis because many individuals serving as positional leaders lack effective leadership capacities. Many organizations choose leaders based on individuals’ academic performance and personality traits; however, those
Vang, Phoua Y.
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