Feasts and Festivals among Contemporary Siberian Communities
The chapter provides an overview of contemporary religious and secular festivals today in Siberia, which have originated in diverse Indigenous religious practices, institutionalized religion, and the secularized rituals of Soviet times. Many public festivals like the Sakha “Yhyakh” or the widespread...
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ftiasspotsdam:oai:iasspublic.gfz-potsdam.de:item_6002825 2023-12-03T10:29:38+01:00 Feasts and Festivals among Contemporary Siberian Communities Dudeck, S. 2023 https://publications.rifs-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_6002825 eng eng https://publications.rifs-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_6002825 The Siberian world Routledge Worlds info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2023 ftiasspotsdam 2023-11-05T23:35:28Z The chapter provides an overview of contemporary religious and secular festivals today in Siberia, which have originated in diverse Indigenous religious practices, institutionalized religion, and the secularized rituals of Soviet times. Many public festivals like the Sakha “Yhyakh” or the widespread “Day of the Reindeer Herder” serve as displays of ethnic identity, but Siberian feasting culture contains also intimate and sometimes hidden local ritual practices like shamanic rituals, sacrificial rituals, or the bear ceremonialism celebrating and negotiating the relations to supernatural power and non-human agents. The chapter will explore how Siberian feasts and ritual practices can represent, perform, and also transform social relations in local communities and the society at large. Book Part Sakha Siberia Publication Database IASS (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam) Sakha |
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The chapter provides an overview of contemporary religious and secular festivals today in Siberia, which have originated in diverse Indigenous religious practices, institutionalized religion, and the secularized rituals of Soviet times. Many public festivals like the Sakha “Yhyakh” or the widespread “Day of the Reindeer Herder” serve as displays of ethnic identity, but Siberian feasting culture contains also intimate and sometimes hidden local ritual practices like shamanic rituals, sacrificial rituals, or the bear ceremonialism celebrating and negotiating the relations to supernatural power and non-human agents. The chapter will explore how Siberian feasts and ritual practices can represent, perform, and also transform social relations in local communities and the society at large. |
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