Stanford_University-Eurasian_Shamanism_Healing.pdf

Stanford University

The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies

presents:

Eurasian Shamanism as Healing

9:30 am

Izaly Zemtsovsky, Ph.D.

Ethnomusicologist, Folklorist

Visiting Professor of Music, Stanford University

Symposium

Friday May 20, 2005

9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tresidder Memorial Union, Oak Lounge

“The Phenomenon of Shamanism: The Siberian Case”

11:00 am Alma Kunanbaeva, Ph.D.

Anthropologist

Visiting Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford

University

“The Phenomenon of Shamanism: The Central Asian Case”

1:00 pm Peter Newsom, M.D.

Psychiatrist, El Camino Hospital

“Shamanic Healing: Our Past and Our Future”

2:00 pm Interview with Galiya Kassymova

Folk Healer, Kazakhstan

“Folk Healing in Modern Kazakhstan”

Alma Kunanbaeva, Interviewer and Interpreter

4:00 pm Demonstration Session: “Melotherapy”

Folk Healer Galiya Kassymova with musician Saben Baribaev

Co-sponsored by

the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology

and

the Asian Religions and Cultures Initiative

Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies

Building 40, Main Quad

Stanford University

Stanford CA 94305-2006

http://CREEES.stanford.edu