Month: March 2022

Korea – Shamanism in Korea is almost entirely a women’s phenomenon: both shamans and their clients are normally women. Shamanic rituals, kut, involving trance and…

Serge Kahili King – Leading proponent of the Hawaiian Huna tradition. The addition of the family name Kahili to his name derives from his adoption…

Kim, Chongho (1954– ) – Korean scholar whose doctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia, entailed fieldwork among Korean shamans, their clients,…

Kharitidi, Olga – In her book Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist (1997), Kharitidi suggests that her experiences…

Kenin-Lopsan, Mongush – President of the Society of Tuvan Shamans, founder and honourary chairman of Tos Deer (Nine Skies), the centralized religious organization of shamans…

Kendall, Laurel – American anthropologist best known for her books about Korean shamans: Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits (1985) and The Life and Hard…

Karen Kelly – Neo-shamanic practitioner living in Cambridge, England, who studied with Jonathan Horwitz of the Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies. With a background in…

Katz, Richard – Clinical anthropologist whose research in the late 1960s on San (Bushmen) healing practices in the Kalahari Desert is published as the seminal…

Karuk – A people indigenous to northwestern California who typically refer to their shamanic healers and ritualists as “doctors,” êem. Traditionally considering themselves to live…

Kardecism – Beginning as a spiritualist movement called Spiritism, founded by the self-named Allan Kardec in France in the mid-19th century, but reaching its most…