Month: March 2022

Obeah – A Caribbean term with at least two distinct uses: It can label an accusation of malevolent sorcery, but it can also refer to…

Norton, Rosaleen (1917–1979) – An artist who was born in New Zealand but lived and worked in Australia and gained notoriety as the “witch of…

Northern Europe – Shamanistic themes have been identified, with some speculation, in the pre-Christian pagan religions across northern Europe, the “Old North.” While it is…

North America – Shamanism has been identified among a wide range of indigenous nations in North America, from the Yaqui living around the Mexican border…

North Africa – Due to the emphasis on Siberia and the Arctic as the locus classicus, alongside the rare extension of the term into Southern…

Noel, Daniel C. (1936–2002) – A scholar of the psychology of religion and myth (particularly Celtic and Native American), religion and the arts, and Jungian…

New-Indigenes – A term coined by Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis to refer to emerging identities in Great Britain (and elsewhere, e.g., in North America)…

New Age – New Age can be defined as a popularization of historical European esoteric traditions, making the pursuit of self-knowledge accessible to the contemporary…

Neurotheology – The idea that the impulse behind shamanism and other religions originates in brain chemistry, put forward in Michael Winkelman’s Shamanism: The Neural Ecology…

Neuropsychological Model – David Lewis-Williams and Thomas Dowson’s neuropsychological model, set out in their Current Anthropology article “The Signs of All Times: Entoptic Phenomena in…