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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Shamans"”.
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
… Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their shamans shaped the response to introduced epidemic disease. As in the experiences of so many other Native American groups, disease epidemics played an important role in the history of relations between the Yup'ik Eskimos and white settlers in the …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
… Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their shamans shaped the response to introduced epidemic disease. As in the experiences of so many other Native American groups, disease epidemics played an important role in the history of relations between the Yup'ik Eskimos and white settlers in the …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …
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Shamanic gender liminality with specific reference to the NatKadaw of Myanmar and the Bissu of Sulawesi.
… of research sets out to discover why co-gendered shamans are flourishing in Myanmar but have all but disappeared on Sulawesi. A review of the literature, firstly, on shamanic liminality in general and, secondly, shamanic gender liminality in particular, reveals that there are three main ways of …
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THE SALIENCE OF MEDICAL CULTURE IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR
… I argue that in the Venecia medical culture, shamans are central to the medical system because they are the creators of power (ushai) and knowledge (yachai). Within introduced medicine and religion, Evangelicalism does provide a system; whereas, biomedicine does not although it is available. …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
… parts of Polynesia it is argued that important shamans are generally found where political devolution - specifically, a contraction of chiefly agency - has taken place. Where a strong ideology of hierarchical chiefly encompassment persists, shamans are non-existent or marginal. Chapters 6 and 7 …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
… parts of Polynesia it is argued that important shamans are generally found where political devolution - specifically, a contraction of chiefly agency - has taken place. Where a strong ideology of hierarchical chiefly encompassment persists, shamans are non-existent or marginal. Chapters 6 and 7 …
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Healing by a National Nature in "Disorganized" Mongolia
… (zurhaich), energy healers (bio energich), shamans (böö, zairan, udgan), enlightened lamas (huvilgaan) and massage therapists (bariach) was driven by the fluid approach with which patients approach fulfilling the needs of their health and wellbeing. Such fluidity was also echoed in healing …
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Chorus for chimeras: a series of etchings towards the development of a personal iconography incorporating symbols, mythologies and ritual
… as interpreters - prophets, sages, priests and shamans. 1 The shaman, as mediator, has been a special concern in my research. I have concentrated on those societies where shamanism is the central religious practice. By virtue of their experience of ritualistic ecstasy, shamans are believed to …
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Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty
… and an ethnography of state scientists, shamans, and a sultans retinue on the active volcano, Mount Merapi, Indonesia. The project aims to understand how practices of forecasting generate futures, mobilize, and organise anticipation, how time is known, and populations governed. It looks …
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Mnemodrama : Alessandro Fersen's parashamanic training technique for the occidental performer.
… of ritual object manipulation employed by shamans in traditional cultures in order to induce an altered state of consciousness. In Fersen's terms such transic techniques provide the contemporary performer with a psychic training which enables him to explore different aspects of his persona …
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
… become increasingly popular in recent years. Shamans have gained importance in environmentalism and struggles for Indigenous rights, as well as academic writing interested in radical social change. Meanwhile, shamanic tourism attracts thousands to the Amazon region each year. The books and …
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Assessment of Religious Motivation and its Effects on Health Related Behaviors
… health, either by formal offerings to religious shamans or the uttering of a prayer to an unseen deity, likely predates recorded history and finds its most basic beliefs expressed in Exodus 15:26, “I will put none of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord, your …
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Human levitation
… as human levitation. Members of some groups (eg: shamans, Spiritualists, qigong practitioners and mystics) may deliberately seek to interact with or access these entities or powers, while others (eg: poltergeist activity and spirit possession) may encounter them involuntarily. It also appears …
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A Ritual in Perspective: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Lakota Sundance At Hoosier National Forest
… the modern world. Many American Indian writers, shamans, and Sundance chiefs believe that an understanding of their approach to the Divine may never be apprehended without some sort of actual experience. This indigenous perspective differs in substantial ways from hegemonic, Christian and Western …
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La danse du Tutuguri ou le rite du soleil noir : une performance textuelle d'Antonin Artaud.
… sacred Peyotl ceremony conducted by powerful shamans. Artaud's ethno-poetic account of their cosmology confirmed his visionary statements on theater. Alongside contemporary anthropology and indigenous spirituality, the artist believed in shaping identity via ritual performances. His narratives …
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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas
… landless tenants) and Sippis (wool-workers and shamans). The experience of fractured caste consciousness has led to ongoing legal woes due to their juridical liminality. These dynamics shape how Gaddi Dalits experience divinities, exorcism and witchcraft. Individual chapters trace forms of …
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… and spiritualistic worldview visit diviners, shamans, spiritualistic herbalists, and the traditional medicine men and women who use enchantments, divination, charms, invocation of the spirit world, etc. They engage in such practices for various reasons which include, to diagnose and treat …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… Based on a sample of consultations between shamans and clients regarding curse-inflicted misfortunes, as well as on sociological and statistical sources about post-Soviet Tuva, this thesis identifies a significant incidence of curse accusations in contemporary Tuva. I argue that this …
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MODERN AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIER MARRIAGE IN GILGIT-BALTISTAN, PAKISTAN.
… 34 in-depth interviews were conducted with shamans, tribal leaders, and other supernatural mediators. 21 interviews were conducted with farmers, herders, pastoralists, shepherds, glacier growers, and climate experts from government and non-governmental organizations. Additionally, six focus …