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Haunted by the Archaic Shaman critically engages the general discourse on shamanism by using ethnographic data gathered among different ethnic groups in the Nepal Himalayas to address several key conceptual issues and problems in the scholarly field of shamanic studies.
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Haunted by the Archaic Shaman: Himalayan Jhakris and the Discourse on Shamanism
By H. Sidky
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
ISBN 0739126210, 9780739126219
251 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=gzIPSP_blC0C&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=WITCHCRAFT+IN+NEPAL&source=web&ots=Y4wEwyPywa&sig=1AYhqjdldulnHD6xlRtEso5swwg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result
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“We feel really bad about it, but we beat old women up, we blame, insult and humiliate them. We think of them as witches.”
The son of Dill Kumari Thakuri tells me why he’s supporting his supporting his mother to claim her rights by taking part in today’s HungerFREE rally and song competition.
Dill takes strength from the support of her son who is chair of the Sri Kalika Bagati youth club. She says that the most vulnerable are “women from rural areas who are illiterate, extremely poor, old and mostly dalit [untouchable lowest caste]. They’re the ones who are blamed and tortured for exercising witchcraft.”
Dill, her friends and family, are here to put an end to this violence against old women.
Dill is also concerned that “our farmland is no good, we have no irrigation. No one can depend on our farm products. We have two meals a day and when things get difficult we have to send our husbands and sons away to earn wages and food.”
Like so many other women here today, she says “I feel very good to be here.”
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Superstitious practices and belief have dominated the socio-cultural lives of the people from time immemorial. Witch-Hunting, Shamanic practices, Para-normal doctors and healers, Divine and God-men claims are the commonplace phenomena not only in the illiterate and ignorant rural community of Nepal but also in the urban centers. The superstitious practices of various kinds have dehumanized the people at large and their community, they have taken the lives of many innocent and ignorant individuals.
Just after the establishment of Humanist Association of Nepal (HUMAN), it conducted case studies and complied information on alleged witchcraft practices in 45 districts of Nepal. The case studies revealed how severely superstitious and the irrational practices have victimized the innocent and credulous people, particularly women in different parts of the country. The publication consists of two parts: the first part consists of the articles on humanism and the second part consists of the case studies of the victims, the individuals accused for practicing witchcraft practices.
http://www.humannepal.org/witchcraft.shtml
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