Contemporary “Shamanising Persons” among the Tungus-Manchu (Evenki, Even, and Nanai): Case Studies about Common Collective Spiritual Representations

• Published in: Study of Religion
• Main Authors: Lavrillier, Alexandra, Sem, Tatiana Yu.
• Other Authors: Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), IEA CNRS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: collective spiritual representation; contemporary shamanising persons; Tungus-Manchu; gathering the spirits; methods of knowledge transmission; mentality; Siberia; [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; Tuva; Evenki; Kamchatka; Yakut
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03376078; https://doi.org/10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.32-51

International audience This article studies common spiritual representations about contemporaryTungus-Manchu “shamanising persons”. It analyses ethnographic material gatheredby the authors between 1994 and 2020 among the Evenki, Even, and Nanai ofYakutia, the Amur region, Kamchatka, Novorossiysk, an...