Google “shamanism” and you will find that it is “a tradition of part-time religious specialists who establish and maintain personalistic relations with specific spirit beings through the use of ...

The roots of Siberian shamanism encompass a vast region in Asia. Indigenous peoples of Siberia have practiced it for ...

This is the second installment of interviews with speakers from the 3rd Annual AltSex NYC Conference, which was held on Friday, April 27, 2018, at the Jerry Orbach Theater in Manhattan. Source: James ...

In both contemporary and traditional shamanism, the shaman is called upon to fulfill the role of priest, magician or healer. The shaman's greatest power is his or her knowledge of other realms of ...

DAVIS, CA – For over a decade, Manvir Singh, an assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis, has immersed himself in the study of shamanism, conducting ethnographic fieldwork with Mentawai ...

Bednarik is critical of the Lewis-Williams and Dowson article, "The signs of all times : entoptic phenomena in Upper Palaeolithic art," Current anthropology (Chicago) 29 (2): 201-245, 1988, and its ...

According to the latest census, an unlikely “religion” is growing in popularity across England and Wales: shamanism. Just 650 people said they subscribed to the belief system in 2011, but that figure ...