Chamanisme

Chamanisme

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Chamanisme

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An intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism, which assumes a "Great Spirit", with lesser deities subordinated. With the beginnings of shamanism there was the advent of the medicine man or witch doctor, who assumed a supervisory relation to disease and its cure. Formally, shamanism is a religion of Ural-Altaic peoples of Northern Asia and Europe, characterized by the belief that the unseen world of gods, demons, ancestral spirits is responsive only to shamans. The Indians of North and South America entertain religious practices similar to the Ural-Altaic shamanism. The word shaman comes from the Tungusic (Manchuria and Siberia) saman, meaning Buddhist monk. The shaman handles disease almost entirely by psychotherapeutic means; he frightens away the demons of disease by assuming a terrifying mien. (From Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p22; from Webster, 3d ed)

Note générale sur le champ d'application :

a form of traditional medicine; specify geog; not for African witch doctors: use instead MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL

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Shamanism

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Identifiant MeSH : mesD019423

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Qualificatifs autorisés : HI97

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Identifiant de la notice : 040838943

RCR créateur de la notice : 0001

Date de création : 23-09-1998

RCR dernier modificateur de la notice : 4994

Date de dernière modification : 23-08-2019 à 16 h 12

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