Month: March 2022

Siberia, Southern – The Altai (Gorno-Altai) in the southwest, Tuva in the southeast, and Khakassia to the north are southern Siberian regions consisting of vast…

Siberia, Northern and Eastern – Siberia (a vast landmass stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the borders of Mongolia and China in…

Shulgin, Alexander (Sasha) (1925– ) Pharmacologist and chemist known for his work on entheogens and especially as a pioneer of psychedelic research, including the synthesis…

Shuar – Indigenous people of Ecuadorian Amazonia, also known as Jivaro. Michael Harner began his anthropological fieldwork among the Shuar in 1956 but focused on…

Shirokogoroff, Sergei Mikhailovich (1887–1939) – Russian ethnographer whose expertise in psychiatry and extensive field observations of the Evenk (Tungus) in the 1930s, including performing the…

Shinto – Japanese religion with a complex history of engagement with Buddhism, folk practice, and imperial and international politics. Irit Averbuch identifies as shamanic a…

Sharon, Douglas – Following Sharon’s now-classic anthropological study Wizard of the Four Winds (1978), which brought the Peruvian shaman Eduardo Calderon to public attention, Calderon…

Shape-Shifting – While the ability to change shape or take on the appearance of an animal, plant, or other being seems to many Westerners to…

Shanon, Benny (1948– ) – Professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in the study of human consciousness, cognitive processes, and the…

Shamen, The – British psychedelic-influenced electronic music group popular with dance/rave culture in Great Britain during the early to mid-1990s. The album Boss Drum released…