Men and ‘Women’s Magic’: Contested Narratives of Gender, Seidhr, and ‘Ergi’
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https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i9.4Keywords:
Neo-Paganism, Wicca, Witchcraft, seidhr, feminism, masculinities, gender,Abstract
Seidhr appears most often as a female activity... male seidh workers were spoken of as 'ergi', a term of insult relating to behaviour seen as 'unmanly'.References
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Blain, J., 1999. “seidhr as Shamanistic Practice: Reconstituting a Tradition of Ambiguity”. Shaman, 7(2), forthcoming.
Eliade, Mircea, 1964. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. New York: Pantheon.
Dowson, T.A., Shamanism and Diversity of Interpretation in Rock Art Studies. In Press.
Dowson, T. A., 1996. Review of Garlake, P. 1995. “The Hunter’s Vision: The Prehistoric Rock Art of Zimbabwe”. Antiquity, 70: 468- 469.
Flaherty, G., 1992. Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Hultkrantz, Åke, 1992. “Aspects of Saami (Lapp) Shamanism”. In Northern Religions and Shamanism, ed. Mihály Hoppál and Juha Pentikäinen. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, and Helsinki:Finnish Literary Society
Hultkrantz, Åke, 1994. “Religion and environment among the Saami: An ecological study”. Circumpolar Religion and Ecology: An Anthropology of the North. Ed. Takashi Irimoto and Takako Yamada. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
Jochens, Jenny, 1996. Old Norse Images of Women. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.
Katz, R., 1981. Boiling Energy: Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Kendall, L., 1996. “Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism”. American Anthropologist 98 (3): 512-527.
Lewis, I.M., 1989. Ecstatic Religion: a study of shamanism and spirit possession. 2 ed. London and New York: Routledge.
Oosten, J.G., 1984. “The Diary of Therkel Mathiassen,1922-1922”. Shamanism in Eurasia. Ed. Mihály Hoppál. 2 vols. Göttingen: Edition Herodot. 2: 377-390.
Pentikäinen, J., 1984. “The Sámi Shaman—Mediator Between Man and Universe”. Shamanism in Eurasia. Ed. Mihály Hoppál. 2 vols. Göttingen: Edition Herodot. 1: 125-148.
Pentikäinen, J., 1998. “The Shamans and Shamanism”. Shamans. Ed. J. Pentikäinen. Tampere Museums Publications 95, Tampere, Finland.
Smith, Dorothy E., 1987. The everyday world as problematic : a feminist sociology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wallis, R.J., in prep. ‘Ancestors are still there. Spirits are still there’: Contested Monuments, Conflicting Views, and the polemics of NeoShamanism in Southwest USA.
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1999-08-01
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Blain, J., & Wallis, R. (1999). Men and ‘Women’s Magic’: Contested Narratives of Gender, Seidhr, and ‘Ergi’. Pomegranate, 9(Autumn), 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i9.4
