{"id":3994,"date":"2012-03-16T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2012-03-16T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:50:37","slug":"introduction-to-mongolian-shamanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Mongolian Shamanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_jbPI08IFUw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Introductory ten-minute video about Mongolian shamanism, revived in the post-Communist decades. Just enjoy the visuals, unless you understand the language.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jenghiz_Khan\"> Jenghiz Khan s<\/a>hows up, of course, as does Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>This well-made video shows the drumming and trance dancing of both male and female shamans. Some of the drums seem to have miniature bows in them \u2014 is that a traditional Mongol style?<\/p>\n<p>At about the 1:02 point, however, I had a realization. New Agey esoteric-themed art is a circumpolar phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductory ten-minute video about Mongolian shamanism, revived in the post-Communist decades. Just enjoy the visuals, unless you understand the language. Jenghiz Khan shows up, of course, as does Buddhism. This well-made video shows the drumming and trance dancing of both male and female shamans. Some of the drums seem to have miniature bows in them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,11],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mongolia","tag-shamanism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-12q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6430,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6430","url_meta":{"origin":3994,"position":0},"title":"Anthropologist Describes Rebirth of Mongolian Shamanism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A news release from the MIT News Office carries the subhead, \"MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.\" The release continues, In 1990, as the Soviet Union was disintegrating, Mongolia, long a satellite of the U.S.S.R., regained its independence. Socialism\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"anthropology\"","block_context":{"text":"anthropology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=anthropology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/sites\/mit.edu.newsoffice\/files\/styles\/news_article_image_top_slideshow\/public\/images\/2013\/20131213180343-0_0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1546,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1546","url_meta":{"origin":3994,"position":1},"title":"The Horse Boy: See it for the Shamanism","author":"Chas S. 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In Manuduhai Buyandelger's Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia, she writes how, \"shamanism is a historical memory for people who lost parts of their ancestral homeland, and who had been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Mongolia\"","block_context":{"text":"Mongolia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=mongolia"},"img":{"alt_text":"pentagrampizza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pentagrampizza-126x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9017,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9017","url_meta":{"origin":3994,"position":3},"title":"On Michael Harner (1929\u20132018)","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The news of Michael Harner's passing has been going around, and of course some magical practitioners have to react by disrespecting him. You might well have heard the usual string of insults: he is an academic poser, he's a fake . . . a cultural imperialist . . . from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"shamanism\"","block_context":{"text":"shamanism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=shamanism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/michael_drum.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1674,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1674","url_meta":{"origin":3994,"position":4},"title":"Is Your Teen Involved in Shamanism?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been out in the woods the last few days, so meanwhile, here's something on the worrisome increase in teen shamanism. 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