Shamanism

by Walter, Mariko Namba

• ISBN13: 9781576076453
• ISBN10: 1576076458
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-31
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Introduction	xv
Alphabetical List of Entries	xxix
VOLUME 1
General Themes in World Shamanism	1	(274)
A
Animal Symbolism (Africa)	3	(4)
Animal Symbolism (Americas)	7	(4)
Animal Symbolism (Asia)	11	(5)
Archaeology of Shamanism	16	(5)
Art and Shamanism	21	(8)
B
Bioenergetic Healing	29	(1)
Buddhism and Shamanism	30	(5)
C
Christianity and Shamanism	35	(6)
Colonialism and Shamanism	41	(8)
Core Shamanism and Neo-Shamanism	49	(8)
Costume, Shaman	57	(4)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Shamans	61	(10)
D
Daoism and Shamanism	71	(3)
Demonic Possession and Exorcism	74	(4)
Divination	78	(4)
Dramatic Performance in Shamanism	82	(7)
Dreams and Visions	89	(6)
Drumming in Shamanistic Rituals	95	(6)
Drums, Shamanic: Form and Structure	101	(6)
E
Ecology and Shamanism	107	(4)
Entheogens (Psychedelic Drugs) and Shamanism	111	(6)
Entoptic Images	117	(2)
Ethnocentrism and Shamanism	119	(5)
Extraction	124	(3)
F
Fire and Hearth	127	(4)
G
Gender in Shamanism	131	(6)
H
Healing and Shamanism	137	(5)
History of the Study of Shamanism	142	(5)
Horses	147	(2)
Hypnosis and Shamanism	149	(4)
I
Initiation	153	(8)
M
``Magic,'' Power, and Ritual in Shamanism	161	(8)
Messianism and Shamanism	169	(5)
Museum Collections	174	(5)
Music in World Shamanism	179	(8)
N
Neuropsychology of Shamanism	187	(10)
O
Offerings and Sacrifice in Shamanism	197	(4)
P
Pilgrimage and Shamanism	201	(3)
Psychology of Shamanism	204	(7)
Psychopathology and Shamanism	211	(6)
Psychopomp	217	(2)
R
Rock Art and Shamanism	219	(6)
S
Soul Retrieval	225	(3)
Spirit Possession	228	(7)
Spirits and Souls	235	(3)
Sufism and Shamanism	238	(5)
T
Tantrism and Shamanism	243	(4)
Trance Dance	247	(3)
Trance, Shamanic	250	(5)
Transformation	255	(4)
Transvestism in Shamanism	259	(4)
Trees	263	(2)
U
Urban Shamanism	265	(2)
V
Visions and Imagery: Western Perspectives	267	(4)
W
Witchcraft and Sorcery in Shamanism	271	(4)
North America	275	(90)
American Indian Medicine Societies	281	(4)
Choctaw Shamanism	285	(2)
Ghost Dance and Prophet Dance	287	(5)
Great Basin Hunters and Gatherers	292	(5)
Greenland Shamanism	297	(6)
Hopi Shamanism	303	(4)
Inuit Shamanism (Central Arctic)	307	(5)
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Shamanism and Secret Societies	312	(3)
Lakota Shamanism	315	(3)
Navajo Shamanism	318	(5)
New Orleans Voudou (North America)	323	(8)
North American Oral Traditions and Shamanism	331	(3)
Ojibwa Shamanism	334	(2)
Peyote Ritual Use (Central America and North America)	336	(3)
Piman Oral Literature and Shamanism	339	(7)
Pueblo Religion and Spirit Worlds	346	(4)
Yokuts Shamanism (California)	350	(4)
Yuman Shamanism (Northern Baja California)	354	(4)
Yupik and Inupiaq Masks (Alaska)	358	(4)
Yupik Shamanism (Alaska)	362	(3)
Central and South America	365	(100)
Afro-Brazilian Shamanism	371	(4)
Amazon Funeral Rites and Shamanism (Brazil)	375	(3)
Ayahuasca Ritual Use	378	(4)
Central and South American Shamanism	382	(11)
Curanderismo (the Americas)	393	(3)
Dark Shamanism (Amazonia)	396	(3)
Huichol (Wixarika) Shamanism (Mexico)	399	(7)
Kanaima Shamanism (Amazonia)	406	(3)
Latin American Christianity and Shamanism	409	(5)
Latin American Literature and Shamanism	414	(3)
Mapuche Shamanism	417	(8)
Maya Bone Divination	425	(1)
Maya Cosmology	426	(5)
Mayan Shamanism	431	(4)
Otomi (Nahnu) Indian Shamanism (Mexico)	435	(4)
Peruvian Shamans	439	(7)
Quiche and Zuni Divination (Guatemala and New Mexico)	446	(3)
Santeria (Afro-Cuban Tradition)	449	(4)
Tarahumara Shamanism (Mexico)	453	(8)
Toba Shamanism (Argentina)	461	(4)
Europe	465	(58)
``Celtic Shamanism'': Pagan Celtic Spirituality	469	(9)
Classical World Shamanism (Ancient Greece and Rome)	478	(6)
Fairies and Shamanism	484	(2)
Finno-Ugric Shamanism	486	(10)
Neo-Shamanism in Germany	496	(4)
Nordic Shamanism	500	(4)
Paganism in Europe	504	(5)
Russian Folklore and Shamanism	509	(4)
Russian Shamanism Today	513	(3)
Witchcraft in Russia	516	(3)
Witchcraft in the Modern West	519	(4)
VOLUME 2
Eurasia	523	(130)
Ancient Iranian Religions and Shamanism	529	(3)
Ancient North Asian Shamanism	532	(4)
``Black'' Shamans, ``White'' Shamans	536	(3)
Buryat Shamanism (Mongolia)	539	(6)
Darkhad Shamanism (Mongolia)	545	(2)
Deer Imagery and Shamanism (Siberia)	547	(4)
Evenki Shamanism (Siberia and Manchuria)	551	(6)
Funeral Rites in Eurasian Shamanism	557	(7)
Kalmyk Shamanic Healing Practices	564	(5)
Kazak Shamanism	569	(4)
Khakass Shamanism	573	(6)
Kirghiz Shamanism (West Central Asia)	579	(3)
Manchu Shamanism	582	(4)
Mongolian Shamanic Texts	586	(7)
Mongolian Shamanic Tradition and Literature	593	(4)
Oroqen Shamanism (Northeast China)	597	(4)
Priestesses of Eurasia	601	(7)
Sakha (Yakut) Shamanism (Northeast Asia)	608	(7)
Sibe Shamanism (Manchuria)	615	(3)
Siberian Shamanism	618	(9)
Spirits and Ghosts in Mongolia	627	(2)
Tajik Shamanism (Central Asia)	629	(3)
Teleutian Shamanism (Siberia)	632	(5)
Tuvan Shamanism	637	(5)
Uyghur Healers (China)	642	(4)
Uzbek Shamanism	646	(3)
Yellow Shamans (Mongolia)	649	(4)
Korea and Japan	653	(52)
Ainu Shamanism (Japan)	657	(9)
Cheju-do Island Shamanism (Korea)	666	(4)
Japanese Shamanic Music	670	(4)
Japanese Shamanism	674	(7)
Korean Shamanism	681	(8)
Mountain Priests---Shugendo (Japan)	689	(4)
Okinawan Shamans and Priestesses	693	(7)
Tsugaru Shamanism (Japan)	700	(5)
China and Sino-Asia	705	(36)
Chinese Shamanism, Classical	709	(4)
Chinese Shamanism, Contemporary	713	(9)
Nong Shamanism (South China)	722	(3)
Qiang Ritual Practices	725	(4)
Spirit Writing in Hong Kong	729	(3)
Spirit Mediumship (Singapore)	732	(4)
Taiwanese Shamanic Performance and Dance	736	(5)
South Asia, The Himalayas, and Tibet	741	(58)
Ancient South Indian Shamanism	745	(2)
Chepang Shamanism (Nepal)	747	(3)
Hinduism and Ecstatic Indian Religions	750	(6)
Ladakhi Shamans and Oracles (Himalayas)	756	(7)
Manipur Meitei Shamanism (Northeast India)	763	(3)
Nepalese Shamans	766	(7)
Priestesses (Mediums) of Sri Lanka	773	(2)
Rai Shamanism (Nepal)	775	(3)
South Asian Shamanism	778	(6)
Spirit Possession in Rajasthan (India)	784	(6)
Tibetan Shamanism	790	(9)
Southeast Asia	799	(52)
Burmese Spirit Lords and Their Mediums	803	(3)
Hmong Shamanism (Thailand, Laos)	806	(4)
Indonesian Shamanism	810	(5)
Javanese Shamanism (Indonesia)	815	(3)
Malay Shamans and Healers	818	(6)
Murut Shamanism (Borneo)	824	(3)
Semai Shamanism (Borneo)	827	(5)
Shadow Puppetry and Shamanism (Java)	832	(2)
Southeast Asian Shamanism	834	(8)
Taman Shamanism (Borneo)	842	(5)
Thai Spirit World and Spirit Mediums	847	(4)
Australasia and Oceania	851	(34)
Atayal Shamanism (Taiwan)	857	(3)
Australian Aboriginal Shamanism	860	(5)
Dreams and Shamanism (Papua New Guinea)	865	(4)
Maori Religion	869	(5)
Oceania: Rituals and Practitioners	874	(6)
Puyuma Shamanism (Taiwan)	880	(5)
Africa	885	(78)
!Kung Healing, Ritual, and Possession	891	(4)
African Traditional Medicine	895	(4)
Ancestor Worship in Africa	899	(7)
Ancient Egyptian Shamanism	906	(4)
Asante Shamanism (Ghana)	910	(4)
Cape Nguni Shamanism (South Africa)	914	(6)
Hausa Shamanistic Practices (Nigeria and Niger)	920	(5)
Igbo Shamanism (Nigeria)	925	(3)
Mami Wata Religion (West Africa)	928	(2)
Marabouts and Magic (West Africa)	930	(4)
Ndembu Shamanism (Zambia)	934	(4)
Swahili Healers and Spirit Cult (East Africa)	938	(4)
Twin Cult of the Akan (Ghana)	942	(4)
Witchcraft in Africa	946	(5)
Yaka Shamanistic Divination (Southwestern Congo)	951	(3)
Zarma Spirit Mediums (Niger)	954	(3)
Zulu Shamanism (South Africa)	957	(6)
Bibliography	963	(64)
Advisory Board	1027	(2)
Contributors	1029	(6)
Index	1035	(26)
About the Editors	1061