Sentences with phrase «shamanism as»

Central to the current presentation is Neto's exploration of shamanism as science, the natural world and its phenomena, and community based crafts.

Bajo contemplates local indigenous shamanism as political dissidence, the universal history of magic, and the continuous suppression of stifled histories of revolutionary women by political systems via colonization and witch - hunting.

Not exact matches

Du Boulay has certainly led a varied and fascinating life, but this book is ultimately about her spiritual odyssey from what she describes as a «middle - class, Anglican upbringing» — via transcendental meditation, Catholicism and shamanism — to her current stance; an eclectic «pick - and - mix» spirituality.

future civilizations will study our society after it crumbles, and our policy shaping, thought controlling religious views will be lumped into the same category as the ancient greek myths, norse gods, and native american shamanism.

As a student of core shamanism, Vanessa advocates adapting traditions to create new modern sacred studies.

Medical anthropology: The anthropology of reproduction (childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and the new reproductive technologies); cultural conceptualizations and treatment of women's bodies / health; biomedicine as a cultural system; integrative medicine; politics of knowledge; shamanism.

Interestingly enough, anthropologist Michael Harner — whose 1980 book The Way of the Shaman helped introduce shamanism to Western audiences — actually describes shamanism in a way that sounds perfectly suited to our times: as a high - speed technology of sorts.

In a band males typically compete by playing games of status such as hunting, warfare, and shamanism or religion.

I checked again on July 20th and 21st: Verlyn Klinkenborg's appreciation of Walter Cronkite was absent, as was a long piece on Mongolian shamanism.

Trained in Western medicine, she once was a skeptic who opposed Oriental medicine (she prefers «Oriental» to «Asian») as «strange, not scientific, kind of shamanism.»

This first solo presentation of works by South Korean artist Park Chan - kyong presents a series of his latest film and documentary works that offers a new perspective on folk religious practices such as shamanism and utopian religious communities, from the period of colonisation and the cold war to the present time.

Even Beuys's shamanism and pseudo-mysticism became a butt for later parody, even though Polke was as much attracted as repelled by the other - worldly.

Maurizio Vanni describes the nomads» conception of everlasting laws of transformation, death and miraculous revival as sacred processes of shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism: «There are living beings that transform themselves into animals, others that change into plants or flowers... there are statues that become animated and people that become statues or stones.

For those who eschew concepts such as «shamanism» and «spirituality» as belonging to the realm of woo - woo, this book will offer the opportunity to expand the reader's comfort zone and learn valuable skills.