Bibliography for the Study of Magic Witchcraft and Religion

© 1991, 1998 James Dow

SHAMANISM AND HEALING

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Anisimov, A. F. (1963). The Shaman's Tent of the Evenks and the Origin of the Shamanistic Rite. In Siberian Shamanism. Henry Michael, ed. Pp. 84-123. Toronto: Toronto Univ. Press. (Siberia. Evenks culture. shaman.)

Bahr, Donald, Juan Gregorio, David Lopez, and Albert Alvarez. (1974). Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press.

Balikci, Asen. (1963). Shamanistic Behavior Among the Netsilik Eskimos. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 16:380-396.

Bateson, G., D. Jackson, J. Haley and J. Weakland. (1972). Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia. In Steps to an Ecology of Mind. G. Bateson, ed. New York: Ballantine. (Contains the theory of complementary relationships.)

Berreman, G. D. (1972). Hindus of the Himalayas. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press. (shamanism: 59, 89-90. Pahri culture.)

Biesele, M. A. (1979). Old K"xau. In Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives. J. Halifax, ed. Pp. 54-62. New York: E. P. Dutton. (Bushman culture.)

Blacker, Carmen. (1975). The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan. London: George Allen and Unwin.

Bogoras, W. (1972). (1958) Shamanic Performance in the Inner Room. In Reader in Comparative Religion. W. A. Lessa and E. Z. Vogt, Eds. Pp. 382-387. New York: Harper and Row. (shamans. Siberia. Chukchee culture.)

Butt, A., S. Wavell, and N. Epton. (1966). Trances. London: George Allen and Unwin. (shamans. Akawaio. South America.)

Calestro, Kenneth. (1972). Psychotherapy, Faith Healing, and Suggestion. International Journal of Psychiatry 10(2):83-113.

Clune, Francis J. (1973). A Comment on Voodoo Deaths. American Anthropologist 75(1):32.

Crocker, John Christopher. (1985). Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism. Phoenix: University of Arizona Press.

DeAngulo, J. (1928). La Psychologie Religieuse des Achumawi, IV: Le Chamanisme. Anthropos 23:561-582. (shamans. Achumawi. in French.)

Dow, James. (1982). Las Figuras de papel y el Concepto del Alma entre los Otomíes de la Sierra. América Indígena 42(4):629-650.

Dow, James. (1984). Symbols, Soul, and Magical Healing among the Otomí Indians. Journal of Latin American Lore 10(1):3-21.

Dow, James. (1986). The Shaman's Touch: Otomí Indian Symbolic Healing. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Dow, James. (1986). Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing: A Theoretical Synthesis. American Anthropologist 88(1):56-69.

Ehrenwald, Jan. (1966). Psychotherapy: Myth and Method; An Integrative Approach. New York: Grune and Stratton.

Eliade, Mircea. (1964). Shamanism: Archaic Technique of Ecstasy. New York: Pantheon. (shaman. Altaic: 191-210. Yakut: 229-236.)

Elkin, A. P. (1977). Aboriginal Men of High Degree. New York: St. Martin's Press. (shamans. medicine men.)

Evans, I. H. N. (1930). Schebesta on the Sacredo-Therapy of the Semangs. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 60:115-125. (shaman.)

Evans-Prichard, E. E. (1931). Sorcery and Native Opinion. Africa 4(1):23-28. (Reprinted in Marwick 1970:21-26.)

Evans-Prichard, E. E. (1976). Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (shamans. witch doctor. shamanic trance Pp. 73, 76, 89.)

Fabrega, H, and D. Silver. (1970). Some Social and Psychological Properties of Zinacanteco Shamans. Behavioral Science 15:471-486.

Firth, R. (1964). Shamanism. In Dictionary of the Social Sciences. J. Gould and W. Kolb, Eds. Pp. 638-639. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.

Freeman, D. (1966). Shaman and Incubus. In The Psychoanalytic Study of Society. Vol 4. W. Muesterberger and S. Axelrad, Eds. Pp. 315-343. New York: International Universities Press.

Gillin, John. (1948). Magical Fright. Psychiatry 11:387-400.

Halifax, J., ed. (1979). Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives. New York: E. P. Dutton. (shamans. visionary trance.)

Hand, W. D., ed. (1976). Shamanic Equilibrium: Balance and Mediation in Known and Unknown Worlds. In American Folk Medicine: A Symposium. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press.

Handleman, D. (1967). The Development of the Washo Shaman. Ethnology 6:444-464.

Harper, E. (1957). Shamanism in South India. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:267- 287. (shamanism. Mysore.)

Herdt, G. H. (1979). The Shaman's "Calling" among the Sambia of New Guinea. In Spirit Possession: Shamans and Trance in New Guinea. Bernard Jullerat, ed. Pp. 41-55. Paris: Société de Oceane.

Joralemon, Donald. (1984). The Role of Hallucinogenic Drugs and Sensory Stimuli in Peruvian Ritual Healing. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 8:399-430.

Jullerat, Bernard. (1979). Spirit Possession: Shamans and Trance in New Guinea. Paris: Société de Oceane. (shamans. New Guinea.)

Katz, R. (1973). Education for Transcendence: Lessons from the Kung Zhu/Twasi. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 2:136-155. (shaman. !Kung Bushmen. Africa.)

Katz, Richard. (1982). Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Kendall, Laurel. (1981). Supernatural Traffic: East Asian Shamanism. Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 5:171-191.

Kiev, Ari. (1964). Magic, Faith, and Healing. New York: The Free Press. (shamans.)

La Barre, Weston. (1972). Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion. In Flesh of the Gods. P. T. Furst, ed., Pp. 261-278. New York: Praeger.

Lachman, Sheldon J. (1983). A Psychophysiological Interpretation of Voodoo Illness and Voodoo Death. Omega 13(4):345-359.

Leighton, A. H. and D. C. Leighton. (1949). Gregorio, the Hand Trembler: A Psychobiological Personality Study of a Navaho Indian. Cambridge: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. (shaman.)

Lewis, I. M. (1971). Ecstatic Religion: An Anthropological Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism. Baltimore: Penguin.

Lex, Barbara. (1984). Recent Contributions to the Study of Ritual Trance. Reviews in Anthropology 11:44-51.

Loeb, E. M. (1924). The Shaman of Nieu. American Anthropologist 26:393-402.

Loeb, E. M. (1929). Shaman and Seer. American Anthropologist 31:60-84. (Mentawei. shaman. Oceania.)

McClennon, James. (1997). Shamanic Healing, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36(3):345-354.

Messing, S. (1958). Group Therapy and Social Status in the Zar Cult of Ethiopia. American Anthropologist 60:1120-1147. (shamans. Amhara culture. Zar cult.)

Metraux, Alfred. (1957). Dramatic Elements in Ritual Possession. Diogenes 11:18-36. (VooDoo. Haiti. shamanic trance: 21-24.)

Michael, Henry. (1963). Studies in Siberian Shamanism. Toronto: Toronto Univ. Press.

Murphy, Jane M. (1964). Psychotherapeutic Aspects of Shamanism on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. In Magic, Faith, Healing. A. Kiev, ed. new York: The Free Press.

Myerhoff, Barbara. (1974). Peyote Hunt: Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. (shamans. Mexico.)

Nadel, S. F. (1965). (1958) A Study of Shamanism in the Nuba Hills. In Reader in Comparative Religion. W. A. Lessa and E. Z. Vogt, Eds. Pp. 464-479. New York: Harper and Row.

Noll, Richard. (1985). Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Role of Visions in Shamanism. Current Anthropology 26:443-461.

Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. (1980). Shamans and Imu: Among Two Ainu Groups. Ethos 8(3):204-228.

Opler, M. E. (1947). Notes on Chiricahua Apache Culture 1: Supernatural Power and Shaman. Primitive Man 20(1,2):1-14.

Opler, M. E. (1958). Spirit Possession in a Rural Area of Northern India. In Reader in Comparative Religion. W. A. Lessa and E. Z. Vogt, eds. Pp. 553-566. New York: Harper and Row. (shamanism. Senapur.)

Osterreich, T. K. (1966). Possession: Demoniacal and Other. Secaucus, N. J.: Citadel Press. (shamans. Batak. Oceania.)

Peters, Larry G. and Douglass Price-Williams. (1980). Towards an Experiential Analysis of Shamanism. American Ethnologist 7(3):397-413.

Peters, Larry. (1981). Ecstasy and Healing in Nepal. An Ethnopsychiatric Study of Tamang Shamanism. Malibu, Calif.: Undena Publications.

Peters, Larry. (1982). Trance, Initiation, and Psychotherapy in Tamang Shamanism. American Ethnologist 9(1):21-46.

Prince, R., ed. (1968). Trance and Possession States. Montreal: R. M. Bucke Memorial Society. (shamans. possession. trance.)

Prince, Raymond. (1982). Introduction to Shamans and Endorphins. Ethos 10(4):299- 302.

Prince, Raymond. (1982). Shamans and Endorphins: Hypothesis for a Synthesis. Ethos 10(4):409- 423.

Roth, H. L. (1896). The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Vol 1. London: Truslove and Hanson. (shaman: I 265. Sea Dyak.)

Sandstrom, Alan. (1981). Traditional Curing and Crop Fertility Rituals among the Otomí Indians of the Sierra de Puebla, Mexico: The Lopez Manuscripts. Bloomington, Ind.: The Anthropology Museum of the University of Indiana.

Schieffelin. (1985). Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality. American Ethnologist 12:707-724.

Schweder, Richard. (1972). Aspects of Cognition in Zinacanteco Shamans: Experimental Results. In Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, 3rd ed. Edited by William A. Lessa and Evon Z. Vogt, pp. 407-412. New York: Harper and Row.

Seligman, C. G. and B. Seligman. (1911). The Veddas. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. (shamanic trance: 129, 211ff, 133-136. Veddas.)

Sharon, D. (1972). The San Pedro Cactus in Peruvian Folk Healing. In Flesh of the Gods. P. T. Furst, ed. Pp. 114-135. New York: Praeger. (shamans. Peru. South America.)

Shirokogoroff, S. (1935). Psychomental Complex of the Tungus. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Siberia. Tungus. shaman.)

Silverman, Julian. (1967). Shamans and Acute Schizophrenia. American Anthropologist 69(1):21-31.

Snell, John E. (1967). Hypnosis in the Treatment of the "Hexed" Patient. The American Journal of Psychiatry 124(3):311-316.

Torrey, E. Fuller. (1974). Spiritualists and Shamans as Psychtherapists: An Account of Original Anthropological Sin. In Religious Movements in Contemporary America. I. I. Zaretsky and M. P. Leone, eds. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.

Tremearne, J. (1919). The Ban of the Bori. London: Heath, Cranton. (Africa, shamans. Hausa Bori cult. medium dance trance.)

Warneck, J. (1909). Die Religion der Batak. Gottingen: Vandenhock and Ruprecht. (shaman. Batak.)

Whaley, Arthur. (1955). The Nine Songs: A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China. London: George Allen and Unwin.

Wilbert, J. (1972). Tobacco and Shamanistic Ecstasy among the Waro Indians of Venezuela. In Flesh of the Gods. P. T. Furst, ed. New York: Praeger.

Winkleman, Michael. (1986). Trance States: A Theoretical Model and Cross-Cultural Analysis. Ethos 14:174-203.

Young, A. (1975). Why Amhara Get Kureyna: Sickness and Possession in an Ethiopian Zar Cult. American Ethnologist 2:567-584. (Amhara culture. Zar cult. shaman.)