Month: March 2022

Soul Projection Ioan Lewis formulated this term, equivalent to “journeying,” to describe an aspect of the work of shamans in combating possession by powerful other-than-human…

Soul Loss – Among people who understand that human and otherthanhuman persons may have one or more souls, there is a common understanding that all…

Soul – Many cultures posit the existence of various parts that make up a person (human or other-than-human). In addition to possessing arms and noses,…

Sorcery – term used to refer to the harmful (combat or assault) activities associated with some shamans, especially when turned against their own kin or…

Sora – An indigenous people of the jungle of Orissa, India. Piers Vitebsky’s fieldwork-based book, Dialogues with the Dead (1993), concerns the mediatory role of…

Somé, Malidoma (1956– ) – West African diviner and “medicine man” from Burkina Faso, now living in the United States, whose biographical and how-to books…

Silva, Ramón Medina (193?–1971) – Huichol (Wixáritari) shaman (mara’akame) and artist whose narrative yarn paintings depicting peyote visions were made famous by anthropologist Peter Furst.…

Siikala, Anna-Leena (1943– ) – Finnish scholar of the Finnish language and of Eurasian shamanism, especially in Finland, Siberia, Central Asia, and the Arctic. Among…

Siberian and Central Asian Rock Art – Within the vast geographical area of Siberia and Central Asia, among the mountains, hills, and river valleys, there…

Siberia, Western – The territory that lies to the east of the Ural Mountains is a vast lowland covered in taiga forest which extends toward…