Category: Shamanism

Siikala, Anna-Leena (1943– ) – Finnish scholar of the Finnish language and of Eurasian shamanism, especially in Finland, Siberia, Central Asia, and the Arctic. Among…

Siberian and Central Asian Rock Art – Within the vast geographical area of Siberia and Central Asia, among the mountains, hills, and river valleys, there…

Siberia, Western – The territory that lies to the east of the Ural Mountains is a vast lowland covered in taiga forest which extends toward…

Siberia, Southern – The Altai (Gorno-Altai) in the southwest, Tuva in the southeast, and Khakassia to the north are southern Siberian regions consisting of vast…

Siberia, Northern and Eastern – Siberia (a vast landmass stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the borders of Mongolia and China in…

Shulgin, Alexander (Sasha) (1925– ) Pharmacologist and chemist known for his work on entheogens and especially as a pioneer of psychedelic research, including the synthesis…

Shuar – Indigenous people of Ecuadorian Amazonia, also known as Jivaro. Michael Harner began his anthropological fieldwork among the Shuar in 1956 but focused on…

Shirokogoroff, Sergei Mikhailovich (1887–1939) – Russian ethnographer whose expertise in psychiatry and extensive field observations of the Evenk (Tungus) in the 1930s, including performing the…

Shinto – Japanese religion with a complex history of engagement with Buddhism, folk practice, and imperial and international politics. Irit Averbuch identifies as shamanic a…

Sharon, Douglas – Following Sharon’s now-classic anthropological study Wizard of the Four Winds (1978), which brought the Peruvian shaman Eduardo Calderon to public attention, Calderon…