Author: Lux Ferre

Clever People – A term used with reference to knowledgeable and skilled Aboriginal Australian elders, healers, and ritual leaders. Thus, it is equivalent to “shamans”…

Clans – Ioan Lewis states that “shamanism is tied to the Tungus [Evenk] clan structure of which, indeed, it is an essential component,” thereby situating…

Circle of the Sacred Earth – An organization founded by Roy Bauer in the United States, describing itself as a “church of animism fostering shamanic…

Churchill, Ward (1947– ) – A Creek/Cherokee Métis (part Native American) and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. A prolific author about…

Christianity – Claims that the founders of Christianity—Jesus Christ and his disciples—were shamans have been made on the basis of the prevalence of healing and…

China – The history of shamanism in this large Asian country illustrates the variety of possible relationships between shamans and other religious, cultural, and political…

Chewong – An indigenous hunter-gatherer and swidden agriculturalist people of the tropical rain forest of peninsular Malaysia, whose animist cosmology and way of life is…

Chanting – A large proportion of the ritual repertoire and performance of shamans in many cultures involves chanting. Both as ritualists leading ceremonies for their…

Napoléon Chagnon (1938–2019 ) Professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, best known for his writings about the Yanomamo of Amazonia.…

Central Europe – Forms of shamanism among peoples ethnically and culturally related to those of Central Asia have been the subject of significant research by…