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In summary, shamanism might be defined as a family of traditions whose practitioners focus on voluntarily entering altered states of consciousness in which they experience
Shamanism is an ancient human institution that recurs because of the capacity of cultural evolution to produce practices adapted to innate psychological tendencies. Keywords: anthropology; culture; division of labor; evolution; magic; professions; religion; shamanism; trance
So far, then, we have three key features of shamanism to include in any definition. The first is that shamans can volun tarily enter altered states of consciousness. The second is that in these states they experience themselves leaving their bodies and journeying to other realms in a manner analogous to contem
Shamans and Religion provides the history of actual shamans' religious practices in Siberia and adjacent Asia, and the imperial Western concept of a primitive, ancient non-Western religion found among the Others––the conquered, colonized non-Western nations.
Shamanism and schizophrenia are examined as altered states of consciousness. A state-specific approach to the phenomenology of these altered states is employed to demonstrate that the existence in…
Based on ethnographic analyses of Eskimo data, this paper argues that the trance model and shaman/priest dualism, which have long been used to define the concept shaman or shamanism, fail to interpret the Alaskan Eskimo case.
1 Ιουν 2009 · This discussion begins by discussing shamans as a polythetic class and proposes that shamans and priests as they are commonly defined do not represent dichotomous religious structures, but rather...
