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Who gives innate gifts? Cognitive and cultural approaches to Turkic South Siberian shamanism [PDF]

, 2007
In Siberia a lot of a facts confirm an essentialist interpretation of shamanism: frequent distinction between genuine and false shamans, physical particularities, like illness, attributed to shamans, absence of initiation, and hereditary mode of ...
Stépanoff, Charles
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano, Hari Basnet, Anna Durrance‐Bagale, Natasha Howard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ilma šamaanideta oleksime vaesemad. Intervjuu ungari folkloristi ja etnoloogi Mihály Hoppáliga tema 70. sünnipäeva eel

Mäetagused, 2012
Nikolay Kuznetsov conducted an interview with Hungarian folklorist and ethnologist Mihály Hoppál on the threshold of his 70th jubilee.
Nikolay Kuznetsov
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Reseña a Shamans of the foye Tree: Gender power and healing among Chilean Mapuche

Revista Pueblos y Fronteras Digital, 2013
Reseña a Shamans of the foye Tree: Gender power and healing among Chilean Mapuche, 2007, de Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, ISBN 978-0-292-71659-9.
Jennifer Hale–Gallardo
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Chamanisme féminin « contre nature » ? Menstruation, gestation et femmes chamanes parmi les Shipibo-Conibo de l’Amazonie occidentale

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2006
« Counter-natural » female shamanism? Menstruation, gestation and female shamans among the Shipibo-Conibo of Western Amazonia. Amazonian shamanism is often described as a male social role from which women are ‘naturally’ excluded because of taboos ...
Anne-Marie Colpron
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The bashful and the boastful : prestigious leaders and social change in Mesolithic Societies [PDF]

, 2008
The creation and maintenance of influential leaders and authorities is one of the key themes of archaeological and historical enquiry. However the social dynamics of authorities and leaders in the Mesolithic remains a largely unexplored area of study ...
A Ehrenberg, A Tanner, AP Fiske, AP Fiske, B Charlton, B Parkinson, B Spencer, BM Bass, BM Knauft, C Boehm, C Boehm, C Bonsall, C Conneller, C Fowler, C McEwan, C Petersen, C Turnbull, C Waddington, C Warren, CJ Conneller, CR Wickham-Jones, D Erdal, D Evans, D Goleman, D Hofmann, D Riches, DE Bar-Yosef Mayer, DS Richardson, E Brinch Petersen, EL Bridges, F Andouze, F Sternke, F Wendorf, GN Bailey, H Brody, H Cobb, H Peter-Röcher, HP Blankholm, IJN Thorpe, IJN Thorpe, IJN Thorpe, J Brück, J Chapman, J Garber, J Hawcroft, J Heinrich, J Mirsky, J Morris, J O’Shea, J Thomas, J Thomas, J Thomas, J Thomas, J Woodburn, J-F Péquart, JA Brown, JAJ Gowlett, JC Barrett, JG Enloe, JJ Shea, JL Briggs, JM Gero, JS Derevenski, K Dentan, KA Kamp, L Grimm, L Janik, L Larsson, L Larsson, L Larsson, L Pugsley, M Gusinde, M Hadley, M Mikulincer, M Mikulincer, M Parker Pearson, M Porr, M Roksandic, M Sahlins, M Shostak, M Vugt Van, M Vugt Van, M Zvelebil, M Zvelebil, M-A Dobres, MA Dobres, MA Dobres, N Bird-David, N Bird-David, N Finlay, N Finlay, N Thorpe, N Valdeyron, NEP Seligman, O Grøn, P Gilbert, P Gilbert, PA Rowley-Conwy, PA Spikins, PA Spikins, Penny Spikins, R Bradley, R Hogan, RB Lee, RH Frank, RJ Schulting, RL Kelly, RM Nesse, S Albrethsen, S Huhndorf, S Roskams, S Vencl, S Vencl, SE Leeuw Der, SJ Mithen, T Constandse-Westermann, T Sy, T Taylor   +117 more
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Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Eskimo shamanism

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967
Shamans and shamanistic performances have been described from almost all parts of the Eskimo world, from the Pacific Ocean and Bering Strait to East Greenland, and to judge from the records it seems that the position and traditional functions of the ...
Erik Holtved
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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
wiley   +1 more source