The shamaness in Asia : gender, religions and the state / edited by Davide Torri and Sophie Roche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torri, Davide, editor.

Roche, Sophie, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Vitality of indigenous religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shamanism--Asia.

Shamanism.

Women shamans--Asia.

Women shamans.

Women healers--Asia.

Women healers.

Religion and state--Asia.

Religion and state.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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).

Contents:

The shamaness at the threshold : gender, religions and the state in Asia / Sophie Roche and Davide Torri

The shamaness' new clothes. On the qualities of resisting bodies / Davide Torri

Shamanesses high and low : gender-based relationships to spiritual entities in Siberia / Roberte Hamayon

Retrospectives : what I got wrong in my first book / Laurel Kendall

Shamanism and gender (in)equality in South and South-east Asia : the chepang of Nepal and the semang-negrito of Peninsular Malaysia / Diana Riboli

Shamans, Islam and the state medical policy in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan / Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka

From clanic shamaness to Burkhanist messenger transformations of religious roles of Altaian women (19th-21st centuries) / Clément Jacquemoud

"Let me take your pain away" : female shamanism in Central Asian soundscape / Razia Sultanova

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

Women's sociability : the qalandar khona of Khujand (Tajikistan) in the context of political events / Sophie Roche

Shamanism and gender construction among the Kavalan of Taiwan : men and women's illness caused by different spirits / Pi-chen Liu

Mirroring values in possession ritual : a biographic-narrative study of female participants in the zār ritual in the hormozgān province of Iran / Maryam Abbasi

Shamanism in Mongolia : women, mother-earth and the world / Laetitia Merli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: The shamaness in Asia

ISBN:

9780429319808

0429319800

9781000204544

1000204545

9781000204537

1000204537

9781000204520

1000204529

Publisher Number:

40030241274

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