Month: March 2022

Buryatia – Located in south-central Siberia along the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, and part of the Russian Federation, Buryatia is home to the nomadic…

Burroughs, William S. – (1919–1997) American writer and performer whose correspondence with Allen Ginsberg about ayahuasca or yagé was published as The Yagé Letters in…

Michael Forbes Brown : The Lambert Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Williams College, Massachusetts, Brown authored books including Tsewa’s Gift: Magic and…

Brown, Joseph Epes (1920–2000) – Like John Neihardt, Brown is a significant interpreter of the Lakota knowledge told to him by Nicholas Black Elk. Brown’s…

Brain Chemistry : Western science views the brain as the source of human consciousness, and increasingly sophisticated understandings of brain chemistry have prompted some researchers…

Bön-Po – A Tibetan form of Buddhism that is likely to have originated as a pre-Buddhist animism with shamanic leaders. Some interpreters try to maintain…

Franz Boas (1858–1942) – German anthropologist who spent most of his life in the United States and is known as a “founding father” of American…

Blood – In discussing Amazonian shamanism, Carlos Fausto notes that to many specialists “the most noticeable fact about this myriad of neoshamanic sites and rites…

Blain, Jenny (1949– ) – Senior lecturer in applied social sciences in the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University, where she leads…