The communication with spirits in the “Non-Ordinary Reality” (NOR) represents a central element in neoshamanistic treatment methods. Shamanistic practitioners each have their own personal “power animals” or “spirit helpers”. These provide information that is used both for diagnostic purposes and for everyday practical decisions. With the healing rituals themselves, too, it is not the shamanisti...

This article discusses, from an historical-neo-institutionalist and relational-strategic perspective, the postmodern thesis of the end of the state due to the increasing processes of world globalization. The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and h...

With reference to one man’s remarkable struggle rebuild his home in Havana following its partial collapse, this article contributes the emerging anthropological literature on care by thematising role of state as carer-in-chief. Experiences such that Lázaro, protagonist article, demonstrate central paradox a project—one receives most extreme expression totalising project revolutionary socialism—...

AIM To estimate the prevalence of hazardous drinking and its socio-economic distribution among Russian men. DESIGN Participants were an age-stratified, population-based random sample of men aged 25-54 years living in Izhevsk, a city in the Urals, Russia. Interviewers administered questionnaires to cohabiting proxy respondents about behavioural indicators of hazardous drinking derived from fre...