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Images of Shamans and a Werewolf Girl in the Khakass’ Heroic Epic

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2022
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]

open access: yes, 2014
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

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967
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

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesEvolutionary 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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Sultans, Shamans & Saints

open access: yesAmerican 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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Nature-human relations in Shamanism and other ancient Turkic literature

open access: yesUluslararası 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)

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура
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]

open access: yes, 2013
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Couderc, Paskal
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