In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim
Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology …

This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way
in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have …

Background Shamanism is a spiritual tradition in which trance practitioners deliberately
modify their state of consciousness to seemingly interact with an invisible world to resolve …

Our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights project (www. sacredsites. org. uk) examines
physical, spiritual and interpretative engagements of today's pagans with sacred sites …

A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified
as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of …

Recent research on the topic of shamanism is reviewed and discussed. Included are works
appearing since the early 1990s in the fields of anthropology, religious studies, archaeology …

Cult scenes illustrated in miniature on administrative stone seals and metal signet rings from
Late Bronze Age Minoan Crete are commonly interpreted as “Epiphany Scenes” and have …

Notions of visualism and individualism have long been employed to elucidate the contours
of Western subjectivity. It is therefore not surprising to find the indigenous Amazonian …

Neo-shamanism is a largely unexplored spiritual practice among Western peoples that, by
virtue of its queerness, has pressing implications for archaeologists. In their practices …

This article examines Argentine immigrants' reliance on informal networks of care that
enable their access to a variety of health providers in New York City (NYC). These providers …