Landscape Perception and Sacred Places amongst the Vasiugan Khanty

This local case study illustrates the ways in which local upper Vasiugan community construct, inhabit and structure their local cultural landscape with regard to general ecology, belief, kinship, delimited into a variety of domains: sacred/spiritual vs. routine economic; restricted vs. unrestricted....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Filchenko (Фильченко), Andrey (Андрей)
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia 2011
Subjects:
sacred places
Vasiugan Khants
ecology
settlement
kinship
khanty
Online Access:http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1267
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Summary:This local case study illustrates the ways in which local upper Vasiugan community construct, inhabit and structure their local cultural landscape with regard to general ecology, belief, kinship, delimited into a variety of domains: sacred/spiritual vs. routine economic; restricted vs. unrestricted. The territory of upper Vasiugan known as Tukh-Emter Lake is known to all on the river as populated by particular clans and as their economic territory.

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