Ainu
Ainu – The largest indigenous population of Japan, descending from ancestors who migrated there around 10,000 years ago. The Ainu mainly live in the northern…
Category: Shamanism
Adjusted Styles of Communication
Adjusted Styles of Communication (ASC) – In contrast with the common claim that shamanism is fundamentally a matter of achieving, controlling, and utilizing altered states…
Abram, David
David Abram (1957– ) American cultural ecologist and magician, a proponent of animism who argues that Western modernity is a form of willful disconnection from…
Castaneda, Carlos
Castaneda, Carlos (1925–1998) – Anthropologist, neo-shaman, and author of the Don Juan series of books (14 in total with three published posthumously). Castaneda’s work has…
Achterberg, Jeanne
Jeanne Achterberg (1942–2012 ) One of a number of scholars who popularized a psychological approach to shamanism in the 1980s, focusing especially on the “inner”…
Blacker, Carmen
Carmen Blacker (13 July 1924 – 13 July 2009) – Formerly professor of Japanese in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge,…
