Search Results for shamanism

...Donald Pollock Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity . By Alberts Thomas Karl . ( Farnham, England : Ashgate Publishing Ltd. , 2015 . xiv+286 pp., introduction, bibliography, index . $122.00 cloth.) Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 Thomas Alberts offers...

...Jarich Oosten; Frédéric Laugrand; Cornelius Remie In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries most explorers, whalers, and ethnographers perceived Inuit traditions, especially shamanism, to be in a state of decline. The assumption that Inuit culture was on the brink of disappearance constituted...

....) Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among the Chilean Mapuche . By Bacigalupo Ana Mariella . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2007 . xi + 321 pp., notes, glossary, references, index, maps, drawings, photographs . $25.75 paper.) Copyright 2012 by American Society...

...Rachel Corr Abstract The aim of this article is to advance our knowledge of past shamanic practices in northwestern South America through an analysis of colonial-era criminal cases of people accused of using “superstitious” healing practices. A reading of three cases from late eighteenth-century...

...Brian Stross Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala . By Deuss Krystyna . ( London : Guatemalan Maya Centre , 2007 . 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $55.00 paper.) Copyright 2014...

... Native combatants stole and desecrated saint statues central to the ceremonial life of other Indigenous communities. Yet, even while elements of Indigenous practices came under attack (by other Indigenous forces, no less) traditions and ancient beliefs survived and even thrived, like employing Shamans...

... with creation myths (notably the chapters by Alfredo Lopez Austin and Terence Turner), whereas others focus on shamanism (Robin M. Wright) and the logic of urban ceremonial centers (David Carrasco). The most wide-ranging synthesis is provided by Lawrence E. Sullivan in his chapter, ‘‘The World and its End...

... contrasting examples in which comanagement is regarded as a success in the North. Book Reviews 791 Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professional- ization of Anthropology. By Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska...

...Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans ( machi weye ) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender...

... to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropological and historical scholarship on Amazonia, ranging from shamanic attack to marriage alliances. The paper explores this history...

..., the Dena'ina contextualized the turmoil not as the oppressive actions of invaders but as shaman-induced intracultural turmoil, thereby shaping the narrative in their own historical terms and negating the power of the occupier to frame history. Third, after the 1836–40 smallpox epidemic, many Dena'ina were...

... indicates that cacao is an integral component in many rites of passage, including those associated with birth, social personhood, initiation, marriage, and death, as well as the initiation of shamans. As such it becomes an intimate ritual product implicated in areas of social identity and reproduction...

... in the field in the 1990s. The uprising, the doctrine of the charismatic shaman who fueled the movement, and the outcomes of the clash with the Argentine Army are described herein. The prophet's doctrine was rooted in a mythology of cosmic cataclysms. By following it, believers would be able to persuade...

...- gion. By David H. Brown. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 440 pp., 16 color plates, 114 halftones, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $38.00 paper, $95.00 cloth.) To Think with a Good Heart: Wixárika Women, Weavers, and Shamans. By Stacy B. Schaefer. (Salt Lake City: University...

...- gion. By David H. Brown. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 440 pp., 16 color plates, 114 halftones, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $38.00 paper, $95.00 cloth.) To Think with a Good Heart: Wixárika Women, Weavers, and Shamans. By Stacy B. Schaefer. (Salt Lake City: University...

...- gion. By David H. Brown. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 440 pp., 16 color plates, 114 halftones, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $38.00 paper, $95.00 cloth.) To Think with a Good Heart: Wixárika Women, Weavers, and Shamans. By Stacy B. Schaefer. (Salt Lake City: University...

... reported historical artifacts that corroborate the ethnographic record of moose calling until the recovery of this moose scapula. Indigenous shamans, particularly in northwestern North America, were specialists entrusted to use scapulimancy to divine the location of animals (de Laguna and McClellan...

... Relación del descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas, hoy S. Francisco de Quito, y declaración del mapa en donde está pintado. In La aventura del Amazonas . Rafael Díaz, ed. Pp. 23 -52. Crónicas de América 19. Madrid:Historia 16. Eliade, Mircea 1964 Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy...

...: The Early Colonial Encounter and the Jesuit Years: 1538-1767. Ethnohistory 41 : 106 -38. Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo 1971 Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1975 The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs...

... source of cutting- edge scholarship on ethnohistorical topics. At the same time, Neil continued to provoke anthropologists and histo- rians alike to critically engage the prevalence of all forms of violent human interactions. His masterful award-winning 2002 book, Dark Shamans, begins...