Liminal Experiences of Miyako Shamans: Reading a Shaman's Diary

Takiguchi, Naoko

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“…However, even in such a secluded period in their lives, both Mace and Duncan have been able to affect, inspire, and help transform some of the individuals they have come into contact with, as demonstrated in this article. Even in periods of personal struggle or self-doubt, they still were able to 'find out causes of domestic and personal troubles and solicit divine support to solve them through ritual and divination' for others (Takiguchi 1990: 1). Mace's partner, Christine, once verbalised the impact Mace has had on people over the years, even during the period of his physical and emotional struggles: This impact seems to be reciprocal.…”

Section: Asceticism and Its Evolution In Modern Timesmentioning

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‘The Hermit Next Door’: The Role of Eremitism/Asceticism in Contemporary Shamanic Healing Practices in North-East Scotland

Barmpalexis¹

2021

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Based on an ethnographic study of ‘Western’ forms of contemporary shamanism in North East Scotland, the article discusses the significant role that eremitism plays in folk healing systems, particularly in shamanism. The tendency to live an isolated life is not only a key feature of traditional shamanic healing practices, but it can also be found in contemporary manifestations of them. Two such cases are discussed in this article. Terry Mace and Norman Duncan are two contemporary shamanic healers who live and offer services in the wider region of North East Scotland. For different individual reasons, they have self-consciously decided to isolate themselves geographically, living simply and self-abundantly, and leading an eremitic way of life away from materialism and socialising. The article thus focuses on examining the role of eremitism in the life of these two healers in an attempt to highlight the significance of the phenomenon in contemporary shamanisms.

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Section: Asceticism and Its Evolution In Modern Timesmentioning

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‘The Hermit Next Door’: The Role of Eremitism/Asceticism in Contemporary Shamanic Healing Practices in North-East Scotland

Barmpalexis¹

2021

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“…While not committed to such contempo rary ancestor thinking, the major theme of Ryukyuan studies in the West has been religion and ritual, especially local shamanistic practices. These include the older but still valuable study by W. Lebra (146) and several more recent works (198,199,270). Especially important among Japanese researchers has been Mabuchi, who has directed a number of group projects in the Ryukyus (159,165).…”

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Directions in the Anthropology of Contemporary Japan

Kelly¹

1991

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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independent data for the construction and verification of theory, is in fact a very com plicated compound of local realities and the contingencies of metropolitan theory (5:360).A third front has recently been opened in the assault on the edifice of ethnography. Having deconstructed ethnographic form and historicized the ethnographic subject, some have now turned to regionalizing its conceptual claims. Their presumption is that all ethnography is regional, a local transposition of general disciplinary concerns. It must be read critically for the problems it highlights through the mutual adaptation of anthropological dis course and locally prominent features and issues: prestige economy in Melanesia, marriage rules in Australia, lineage in Africa, caste in South Asia. "Localizing strategies" is Fardon's felicitous phrase (81) for the complicated dialectic of region and problematic, which was illustrated so effectively in Abu-Lughod's review (2) of "zones of theory" in Arab world anthropology.Some of the work I consider in this essay may be so analyzed. I Yet I argue IThis review is limited to social-cultural anthropology (for archaeology, see 77, 109; for linguistic anthropology, see 244; for primatology, see 9, 97:244--58). I deal only with English language works. The disciplinary surveys in the periodic but misnamed Introductory Bibliogra phy for Japanese Studies provide helpful English-language reviews of anthropology in Japan (114,197, 261,262,288,289; see also 17,124, 183, and 157). Long (157) has surveyed family sociology. 395

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Liminal Experiences of Miyako Shamans: Reading a Shaman's Diary

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‘The Hermit Next Door’: The Role of Eremitism/Asceticism in Contemporary Shamanic Healing Practices in North-East Scotland

‘The Hermit Next Door’: The Role of Eremitism/Asceticism in Contemporary Shamanic Healing Practices in North-East Scotland

Directions in the Anthropology of Contemporary Japan

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