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Shamanism

Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination, or to aid human beings in some other way.

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Shamanism

Nodes161
Edges160
Triples152
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012422
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Shamanism

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related to Criticism of the term · 18
Shamanism → Abrahamic, Alice Kehoe, An Anthropological Exploration, Because, Critical Thinking, Indigenous, Kehoe, Mircea Eliade's, New Age, Paleolithic, Part, Religion, Shamans, She, The, This, To Kehoe, Western
related to Etymology · 18
Shamanism → Buddhism, Central Asian, Chinese, Evenki, Finnish, Gandhari, However, Juha Janhunen, Manchu, Mircea Eliade, Russian, Sanskrit, Sym Evenki, The, The Modern English, Tocharian, Tungus, Tungusic
related to Cognitive and evolutionary approaches · 17
Shamanism → According, As, Citing, For, In, Influential, Manvir Singh, Michael Winkelman, Nicholas Humphrey, Pascal Boyer, Practitioners, Singh, Singh's, The, There, Winkelman, With
related to External links · 13
Shamanism → Aado Lintrop, Estonian Literary Museum, EthnographyStudies, Finno-Ugrian Peoples, Folk Belief, Healing Rituals, Media Group, New Age Frauds, Plastic Shamans, Religions, Russian Museum, Siberian Shamanism, Tatyana Sem
related to history · 12
Shamanism → Asiatic, Despite, Europe, Historically, Indigenous, Mongolia, Other, Russia, Siberia, The, Tuva, Tuvan
related to Decline and revitalization and tradition-preserving movements · 10
Shamanism → Besides, Buryat, For, God, In, Indigenous, Inuit, Kara-Gürgän, Traditional, Whalers
related to Medical anthropology approaches · 9
Shamanism → According, Anthropologists Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Disease, Donald Joralemon, In, Joralemon, Margaret Lock, The, This
related to Semiotic and hermeneutic approaches · 9
Shamanism → According, Analogously, If, Juha Pentikäinen, Meanings, Series, Shaman's, Siberian, There
related to Ecological aspect · 8
Shamanism → Among, As, Inuit, Sea Woman, The, The Piaroa, This, Tucano
related to Beliefs · 4
Shamanism → Common, Eliade, Spirits, There

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shamans shaman spirit also spiritual many world practices among indigenous spirits term may community healing shamanic beliefs trance peoples social

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Shamanismis aspiritual practice that involves a practitioner0.90text
Shamanismis aancient0.90text
Shamanismis acultural technology that adapts to0.90text
the noble savage.Kehoe is highly critical of Mircea Eliade's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsupported by more direct researchinstance ofKehoe also believes that the term reinforces racist ideas0.80text
drumminginstance ofciting practices0.80text
tranceinstance ofciting practices0.80text
chantinginstance ofciting practices0.80text
entheogeninstance ofciting practices0.80text
hallucinogen useinstance ofciting practices0.80text
spirit communicationinstance ofciting practices0.80text
and healing as definitive of shamanism ignores the fact that they exist outside of what is defined as shamanisminstance ofciting practices0.80text
even play similar roles in nonshamanic culturesinstance ofciting practices0.80text

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