Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
Chongho Kim's study is based upon fieldwork in the small town of Soy and in Seoul. The study addresses the place of shamans in modern Korean society and the cultural paradox of the existence of shamanism in a society that sees such a phenomenon as a kindof superstition.
The Dogrib Indians are one of the Dene groups - Athapaskan-speaking peoples of the western Canadian Subarctic. Based on the author's field studies from 1959 to 1976, this volume presents an ethnographic description of the Dogrib prophet movement.
Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world's peoples - the world's social majority - quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue…
Even in the twenty-first century, some two-thirds of the world's peoples quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue to be heard, continue to be lo…