Shamanism
This entry consists of the following articles:
An Overview [first Edition]
An Overview [further Considerations]
Siberian and Inner Asian Shamanism
North American Shamanism
South American Sha...
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Shamanism
Shamanism is a vocation, social role, and ritual cosmos recognizable over a vast geographical range from the Arctic and boreal forests, to the Central Asian steppes, East Asia, the Himalayas...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Two Malaysian women have lodged a police
report against a self-proclaimed shaman and his female accomplice for
allegedly duping them of thousands of rin...
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East Java, Indonesia (dpa) - Newborns are supposed to brighten a
family's home, making parents smile even when they hear the baby cry.
Some families are not so luck...
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Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Malaysian police are considering using a
psychic witness to solve the brutal murder of an eight-year-old girl
whose body was found stuffed inside a bag ...
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The ritual sacrifice of a snow-white llama Friday symbolically marked President Evo Morales' nationalization of Bolivia's lone operating tin smelter.Swiss mining giant Glencore International AG own...
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Carlos Santana's song "Game of Love" with Michelle Branch was a huge hit and even won the pair a Grammy. Still, for years, Santana wished that fans could have heard the original version _ with Tina...
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Hank KaplanMIAMI (AP) — Hall of Fame boxing historian Hank Kaplan died Friday, leaving behind archives that dated to the 1800s. He was 88.Kaplan died after battling cancer for nearly a year, ...
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Just as we were really missing Toni Schlesinger's "Shelter" column that was published in the Village Voice since 1997, this 300-plus page anthology of her writings crosses our desk.
It should be ...
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Saudi Arabia identified the Saudi citizen Thursday who apparently committed suicide recently at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison camp.Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior ...
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Hundreds of pages have been ripped from the calendar since Iraqis last showed the unity and happiness that flowed across the land on Sunday.And it would have been foolhardy to predict a soccer team...
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On Barefoot Doctors:Q – What exactly is a barefoot doctor?A – They were Chinese healers who would wander around the countryside and heal people using acupuncture, hypnotherapy, and even...
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