Tag: Shamans

Free Download Shamans and Robots: On Ritual, the Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness (Univocal) by Roger Bartra, translated by Gusti Gould
English | November 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1517917492 | True EPUB | 166 pages | 0.5 MB
A profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices

Free Download Shamans and Robots: On Ritual, the Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness
by Roger Bartra and Gusti Gould
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1517917492 | 166 Pages | True PDF | 0.91 MB

Free Download Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953"
English | ISBN: 0197654479 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party’s rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

Free Download Laurel Kendall, "Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion"
English | 2009 | pages: 282 | ISBN: 0824833988 | PDF | 24,7 mb
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity.