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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

Dark shamans

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
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Czaplicka, Maria Antonina

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”:
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Cyberia

Cyberia – Drawing conceptually on the vast tundra of Siberia, “Cyberia” (see Rushkoff’s 1994 volume of the same title, for instance) refers to the virtually vast region of the Internet. For contemporary
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Cunning folk

Cunning folk – Scholars such as Owen Davies and Emma Wilby have distinguished between beneficent “cunning folk” and maleficent “witches” in early modern Britain. While cunning folk might offer healing, help find
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Crow Dog, Leonard

Leonard Crow Dog (1942–2021 ) Sicangu (Brûlé) Lakota medicine man, “road man” in the Native American Church, and coauthor with Richard Erdoes of Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men (1995). Erdoes records
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Crow

Crow – Native American nation, also known as Absaroke and Apsáalooke. Their reservation in Montana is a small fraction of territory recognized as theirs by treaties with the federal government of the
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Creighton, John

Creighton, John – In his volume Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain (2000), Creighton draws on neuropsychological analyses of rock art to argue that the geometric and distorted anthropomorphic imagery
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Costumes

Costumes – What shamans wear is often of considerable importance to the fulfillment of their roles. Costumes may not be mere decoration or artistic embellishment but helpers as significant as the otherworld
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Cosmology

Cosmology – Shamans and their communities usually share a cosmology, a view of the world, that includes an understanding of both how everything works and how it began. Generally, shamanic cosmologies are
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