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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Tobacco visions: shamanic drawings of the Wauja Indians

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
This article analyzes shamanic drawings based on research of two ethnographic collections gathered between 1978 and 2004 among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu.
Aristoteles Barcelos Neto
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Sorcellerie capitaliste et touristes pishtaco : les tensions occultes autour du tourisme d’ayahuasca chez les Shipibo de San Francisco (Amazonie péruvienne)

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2022
The emergence of “shamanic tourism” in some Shipibo-Konibo villages and urban areas has led to a recrudescence of vernacular witchcraft practices, now integrated into the new sociological context of the commercialization of local vegetalist shamanism ...
Doriane Slaghenauffi
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AI as guru or conjurer?

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Shamanic Attributes of Anthropomorphic Characters in the Rock Art of the Middle Yenisei

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The rock art of the Middle Yenisei often depicts shamans with various shamanic attributes. The local shamanism has its roots in the Bronze Age. It influenced the plots and patterns of the Middle Yenisei rock art.
Alexandr L. Zaika, Ivan V. Siryukin
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Oral traditions in Malaysia A discussion of shamanism

Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2010
The article discusses Malay oral traditions and emphasizes the shamanistic aspects of these traditions. Shamans often recite mantras in the execution of their role in society.
Haron Daud
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Los cuna y sus saberes médicos. La “ciencia” de los “bárbaros” bajo la mirada del mundo ilustrado

Historia Crítica, 2012
This article analyzes some aspects of the medical knowledge of the Cuna indigenous people during the 18th century. It explores topics such as the representation of the phenomenon of health/ illness, the specialization of medical authorities, the ...
Jaime Andrés Peralta Agudelo
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Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past [PDF]

, 2004
Our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights project (www.sacredsites.org.uk) examines physical, spiritual and interpretative engagements of today’s Pagans with sacred sites, theorises ‘sacredness’, and explores the implications of pagan engagements with ...
Blain, J., Wallis, R. J.
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Researcher Positionality and Relational Power: Playing With ‘Researching Up’ and ‘Researching Down’ in Critical Reflexivity

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper draws on the concepts of ‘researching up’ and ‘researching down’, often used to distinguish between relative ‘power over’ or ‘power under’ interlocutors. It suggests that by mobilising these concepts through feminist geography as a relational analytic rather than oppositional categories, we can generate new insights into our ...
Jennifer C. Langill
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