A new DNA analysis of the mummies of historical Indigenous Yakuts reveals resistance to 17th-century Russian conquest.

The girl was only 13 when she disappeared. Her parents had taken her to a shaman near their home in rural Indonesia for treatment and left her with him, but she never came back. The shaman told them ...

Machine generated contents note: 1 Udegei Storytellers in Gvasyugi 3 -- EOFU SISILIEVICH KIMONKO -- Two girls and Kanda Mafa 9 -- VALENTINA TUNSYANOVNA KYALUNDZYUGA -- Kanda Mafa and the Bones 1 -- ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Shamanism, humankind's oldest spiritual and healing tradition, is in many cultures dominated by men, and Western skeptics often debunk its effectiveness. In a groundbreaking new book ...

An Indonesian woman abducted by an elderly shaman at the age of 13 has been rescued by police 15 years later. On Sunday, police responded to reports of a woman being held captive by an 83-year-old man ...

One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg, a key finding of the last hunter-gatherer groups. From a time when there were no written ...

Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Spinning the thread -- 1. Origins of flesh and fabric -- 2. Two families of women and their weaving ways -- 3. Women and men -- 4. Weaving from girls ...

Shamanism, derived from the Tungusic word, saman (“one who knows”), dates back to Paleolithic cultures, evidenced by ancient cave art and healing artifacts uncovered across the globe. But the precise ...

Shamans, as figures existing outside the Confucian system, were often the targets of disdain, yet at the same time, they continued to be beloved by many. Whenever people fell ill or their loved ones ...