This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts.
This book concentrates on female shamanisms in Asia and their relationship with the state and other religions, offering a perspective on gender and shamanism that has often been neglected in previous accounts.
Davide Torri is currently researcher at the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, and Performing Arts at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). In addition, he is associate member of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Germany) and of the Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes of the CNRS (France). He is also Secretary of the ISARS (International Society for the Academic Research on Shamanism). His main areas of research includes Himalayan religions, shamanism and indigenous minorities. Among his publications, we find Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal (2020) and (as co-editor) Shamanism and Violence: Power, Repression and Suffering in Indigenous Religious Conflicts (2013). Sophie Roche is a research associate and lecturer at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She is the author of The Faceless Terrorist: A Study of Critical Events in Tajikistan (2019).
Inhaltsangabe
1 The Shamaness at the threshold: gender, religions and the state in Asia- Sophie Roche and Davide Torri; 2 The Shamaness' New Clothes. On the Qualities of Resisting Bodies-Davide Torri; 3 Shamanesses High and Low : Gender-based relationships to spiritual entities in Siberia-Roberte Hamayon; 4 Retrospectives: What I got wrong in my first book-Laurel Kendall; 5 Shamanism and Gender (In)equality in South and South-east Asia: The Chepang of Nepal and the Semang-Negrito of Peninsular Malaysia-Diana Riboli; 6 Shamans, Islam and the State Medical Policy in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan-Danuta Penkala-Gaw cka; 7 From Clanic Shamaness to Burkhanist Messenger Transformations of Religious Roles of Altaian Women (19th-21st centuries)-Clément Jacquemoud; 8 "Let me take your pain away": Female Shamanism in Central Asian soundscape-Razia Sultanova;9 Female Shamanhood in the Southern Siberia at the Turn of Millennium: A Revival of an Ancient Archetype, Modernization or Declining of "Traditional" Shamanism?-Galina B. Sychenko; 10 Women's sociability: The qalandar khona of Khujand (Tajikistan) in the context of political events-Sophie Roche; 11 Shamanism and gender construction among the Kavalan of Taiwan: Men and women's illness caused by different spirits-Pi-chen Liu; 12 Mirroring Values in Possession Ritual: A Biographic-Narrative Study of Female Participants in the Z r Ritual in the Hormozg n Province of Iran-Maryam Abbasi; 13 Shamanism in Mongolia: Women, Mother-Earth and the World- Laetitia Merli
1 The Shamaness at the threshold: gender, religions and the state in Asia- Sophie Roche and Davide Torri; 2 The Shamaness' New Clothes. On the Qualities of Resisting Bodies-Davide Torri; 3 Shamanesses High and Low : Gender-based relationships to spiritual entities in Siberia-Roberte Hamayon; 4 Retrospectives: What I got wrong in my first book-Laurel Kendall; 5 Shamanism and Gender (In)equality in South and South-east Asia: The Chepang of Nepal and the Semang-Negrito of Peninsular Malaysia-Diana Riboli; 6 Shamans, Islam and the State Medical Policy in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan-Danuta Penkala-Gaw cka; 7 From Clanic Shamaness to Burkhanist Messenger Transformations of Religious Roles of Altaian Women (19th-21st centuries)-Clément Jacquemoud; 8 "Let me take your pain away": Female Shamanism in Central Asian soundscape-Razia Sultanova;9 Female Shamanhood in the Southern Siberia at the Turn of Millennium: A Revival of an Ancient Archetype, Modernization or Declining of "Traditional" Shamanism?-Galina B. Sychenko; 10 Women's sociability: The qalandar khona of Khujand (Tajikistan) in the context of political events-Sophie Roche; 11 Shamanism and gender construction among the Kavalan of Taiwan: Men and women's illness caused by different spirits-Pi-chen Liu; 12 Mirroring Values in Possession Ritual: A Biographic-Narrative Study of Female Participants in the Z r Ritual in the Hormozg n Province of Iran-Maryam Abbasi; 13 Shamanism in Mongolia: Women, Mother-Earth and the World- Laetitia Merli
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