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Shamanism
Beliefs and practices promoting communication with the spiritual world.
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Shantytown
Shantytown: an area in or around a city where people live in temporary shacks, often without basic services such as running water.
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Shatter belt
A large, strategically located region composed of conflicting states caught between the conflicting interests of great powers.
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Sherpa
A person of Tibetan ancestry in Nepal serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest region.
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Shi’a Islam
The branch of Islam regarding male descendants of Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, as the only rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
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Shi’ite
One of the two main branches of Islam, including most Iranians and some Iraq and Afghanistan populations.
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Shifting cultivation
A cycle of land use between crop and fallow years is needed to work around tropical soils’ infertility.
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Shintoism
A native animist tradition of Japan, Shinto practice is based upon the premise that every being and object has its spirit or kami.
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Shogun
The emperor’s army with the powers of a military dictator, a position created by the Japanese emperor in 1192 after a struggle between two powerful clans.