Lux Ferre

Deprivation and Overstimulation – Rhythmic dancing, monotonous singing, chanting and drumming, prolonged fasting, hyperventilation, flagellation and other forms of pain, and light deprivation all mark ways in which shamans may deprive or

Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) – Standing Rock Sioux and Santee Dakota; professor emeritus of history and religious studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Among Deloria’s many important publications are Custer

Deer tribe – Also known as the Métis Medicine Society. A global organization that promulgates a blend of Native American religious traditions, neo-shamanism, and New Age spirituality through lecture tours, workshops, publications,

De Mille, Richard – De Mille became suspicious that elements of Carlos Castaneda’s Yaqui “ethnography,” and indeed the shamaninformant Don Juan himself, were inauthentic—an elaborate fiction. He wrote a lengthy volume entitled

Dayak – Indigenous people of Borneo, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Their animist religious culture necessitates the employment of shamans as healers and intermediaries with other-than-human persons and Dayak ancestors who inhabit the rain

Datura – The use of hallucinogens is not universal to shamanisms, but many shamans, especially in South America, engage with culturally recognized plants as other-than-human persons in intimate relationships that enable powerful

Darts – In many cultures, it is thought that illnesses may be the result of assault by sorcerers, witches, enemy shamans, or even aggrieved “friendly” shamans. In many cases, these hostile forces

Dark shamans – A distinction is commonly drawn in Amazonia between “curing shamans” and “dark shamans.” This should not be interpreted, however, as “our shamans” versus “enemy shamans” because all shamans may

Dance of the Deer Center for Shamanic Studies – Established in 1979 by Brant Secunda, grandson of the Mexican Huichol (Wixáritari) shaman Don José Matsuwa, with the mission “to preserve the Huichol

Czaplicka, Maria Antonina – (1886–1921) Polish-born cultural anthropologist best known for her fieldwork among indigenous Siberian communities, published as Aboriginal Siberia (1914). Czaplicka documents Siberian shamanism as a form of “Arctic hysteria”: