Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Torri, Davide
• Roche, Sophie

Description

xii, 269 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"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. An international range of contributors cover a broad geographical scope, ranging from Siberia to South Asia, and Iran to Japan. Several key themes are considered, including the role of bureaucratic established religions in integrating, challenging and fighting shamanic practices, the position of women within shamaniccomplexes, and perceptions of the body,. Beginning with a chapter that places the shamaness at the centre of the discussion, chapters then approach these issues in a variety of ways, from historically informed accounts, to presenting the findings of extensive ethnographic research by the authors themselves. Offering an important counterbalance to male dominated accounts of shamanism, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Indigenous Peoples across Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Gender Studies"--

Series Statement

Vitality of indigenous religions

Uniform Title

Vitality of indigenous religions.

Subjects

• Informational works
• Asia
• Religion and state > Asia
• Women healers > Asia
• Women shamans > Asia
• Shamanism > Asia

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The shamaness at the threshold : gender, religions and the state in Asia / Sophie Roche, 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-Gawec̜ka -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 21-1368

ISBN

• 9780367279325
• 0367279320
• 9780429319808 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2020032722
• 40030288420

OCLC

1183398527

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Vitality of indigenous religions

Vitality of indigenous religions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Torri, Davide, editor.

Roche, Sophie, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40030288420

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1368