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Environmentalism

Environmentalism – Shamans cannot strictly be identified as environmentalists because, as animists, they are members of a large community of life rather than being surrounded by an impersonal environment or “nature.” However,
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Silva, Ramón Medina

Ramón Medina Silva was a Wixárika, formerly more commonly described in English-language anthropology as Huichol, mara’akame whose ritual knowledge and visionary art became widely known through the work of anthropologists Peter T. Furst and Barbara Myerhoff. He died in 1971,
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Fields of the Nephilim

Fields of the Nephilim – Also known as the Nephilim or Nefilim. British rock band established

Black Shamanism

Black Shamanism – Caroline Humphrey cites the 19th-century Buryat scholar Dorji Banzarov as saying that there

Drury, Nevill

Drury, Nevill (1947– ) – Australian author whose introductory and survey work on shamans, Pagans, and esotericism (e.g., The Elements of Shamanism, 1989; Magic and Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans, 2003)
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Drums and drumming

Drums and drumming – Rhythmic sounds and movements are commonplace in shamanic performance. In Mircea Eliade’s construction of shamanism as “the techniques of ecstasy,” the creation of rhythm is the primary technique
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Dreams

Dreams – Some people understand that to dream is to journey in the other world, or that the dream world is the real one and that what is seen there will happen
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Dreaming, The

Dreaming, The – In Aboriginal Australian English, or in translations of Aboriginal traditional terms, the Dreaming refers to the process by which places and emplaced life was created, ordered, and socialized. It
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Dowson, Thomas A.

Dowson, Thomas A. – South African archaeologist and rock art researcher. Dowson initially drew attention to enigmatic geometric imagery in Southern African rock art traditions and later, with David Lewis-Williams, proposed a
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Don Juan

Don Juan – An alleged Yaqui sorcerer and informant to Carlos Castaneda and the central character in his prolific series of Don Juan books, including The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui
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Doctors

Doctors – In many indigenous cultures, shamans are healers. As the local equivalent of Western doctors, they seek the causes and cures of illnesses. However, since their medical practice exists in an
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Dobkin de Rios, Marlene

Dobkin de Rios, Marlene (1939– ) – American medical anthropologist and clinical psychologist; professor of anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. Best known for her interest in ayahuasca and other plant use
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Dismemberment

Dismemberment – A common feature of many stories of initiations, especially of shamans. Powerful other-than-human persons, ancestors, or spirits take the prospective initiate (often against their will) and tear or cut them
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Diószegi, Vilmos

Vilmos Diószegi (1923–1972) – Hungarian ethnologist and research fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. In addition to his extensive work on Siberian shamans, published as Popular Beliefs and Folklore
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