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What is SHAMANISM? Who is the Shaman? Academic debate

17 min • 28 juli 2023

What is Shamanism? Who is the Shaman? Academic definitions and controversies surrounding Shamanism and my proposal to a new definition of Shamanism.


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ERRATA CORRIGE: The definition 'Other-than-human persons' was actually first introduced by Hallowell and later adopted by Harvey. Its first account is found in

Hallowell, A. I. (1960) Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View, Columbia University Press.


REFERENCES


Bowie, F. (2006) The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction, 2 edition., Malden, MA ; Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.


Cacopardo, A. S. (2009) ‘La trance sciamanica: esperienza estatica o performance rituale?’, in Scalera McClintock, G. and Conforti, R. (eds), La mente e l’estasi, Atti del convegno, Salerno, Rubbettino - Università degli Studi di Salerno, pp. 29–44 ).


Eliade, M. (1972) Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (trans. W. R. Trask), Princeton, Princeton University Press.


Harvey, G. (2010) ‘Animism rather than Shamanism: New Approaches to what Shamans do (for other animists)’, in Schmidt, B. E. and Huskinson, L. (eds), Spirit Possession and Trance: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 16–34.


Harvey, G. and Wallis, R. J. (2015) Historical Dictionary of Shamanism, Rowman & Littlefield.


Hutton, R. (2006) ‘Shamanism: Mapping the Boundaries’, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 209–213.


Mikhailovskii, V. M. and Wardrop, O. (1895) Shamanism in Siberia and European Russia, Being the Second Part of ‘Shamanstvo’, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 24.


Owen, S. (2017) ‘What is Shamanism?’ In A.W. Hughes & R.T. McCutcheon (eds) Religion in Five Minutes (London; Oakville, CT: Equinox), 207-11.


Potter, J. and Edwards, D. (1996) ‘Discourse Analysis’, in Banyard, P. and Grayson, A. (eds), Introducing Psychological Research: Sixty Studies that Shape Psychology, London, Macmillan Education UK, pp. 419–425.


Schmidt, B. E. (2016) Spirits and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experience, Bloomsbury Publishing.


Stutley, M. (2002) Shamanism: An Introduction, London ; New York, Routledge.


Taira, T. (2013) ‘Making space for discursive study in religious studies’, Religion, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 26–45.


Tedeschi, E. (2017) ‘Omatakuyassi: la metànoia transculturale’, Democrazia e Sicurezza - Democracy and Security Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 365–403.


Willerslev, R. (2007) Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs, 1 edition., Berkeley, University of California Press.


00:00 Introduction What is Shamanism?

01:42 The origin of the term Shaman

03:04 Mircea Eliade’s definition

06:18 The common traits of Shamanism

08:14 A new approach

09:01 Deixis – context is key

13:01 Who decides who is a Shaman

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