Ginzburg, Carlo – Professor of Italian Renaissance studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is best known as a pioneer of “microhistory” (examining a small period of history in meticulous
Gender – In particular local cultures, the question of gender may be a significant determinant of shamanic ability, acceptability, and authority. However, it is rarely as simple a matter as saying “among
Garifuna Religion – The Garifuna (also known as Black Caribs) are the descendents of Africans and the indigenous Carib people of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean. The survivors of a British deportation
Galdanova, Galina R. – Buryat ethnologist of Buryat, Mongolian, and Siberian shamanisms. She is senior researcher and Mongolian finds keeper at the Institute of Oriental, Mongolian, and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian
Furst, Peter T. – Anthropologist specializing in shamanisms, hallucinogens, and art, especially the use of peyote by and art of the Huichol (Wixáritari) in Mexico. Furst is professor emeritus of anthropology and
Fries, Jan – German neo-shaman, occultist, and magickian who has been influential in Europe in promoting a form of “freestyle shamanism” that emphasizes trance work in nature without necessary reference to a
Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS) – A nonprofit educational organization located in Mill Valley, California (formerly the Center for Shamanic Studies in New York, established in 1983), founded and directed by Michael
Flaherty, Gloria – Flaherty’s volume Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century (1992) has made a major contribution to the historiography of the term shaman. Immediately upon “discovery,” shamans were molded to the preferred
Fields of the Nephilim – Also known as the Nephilim or Nefilim. British rock band established in 1983 who came to prominence with the gothic subculture of the late 1980s and early
Fausto, Carlos – In an important article with particular reference to the Parakanã, Fausto defines Amazonian shamanism as “predatory animism.” In an elucidating comment, he contrasts neoshamanism, which is “turned on the
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