Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics

Siberian shamanism has roots in hunting traditions, kinship organization and soul beliefs which have changed under Soviet rule. Aspects of shamanic epistemology and curing survive, although native medical logic sometimes clashes with modern positivist medicine. Assumptions behind Siberian, particula...

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Main Author: Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Subjects:
khanty
ostiak
Siberia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0277-9536(87)90023-2
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description Siberian shamanism has roots in hunting traditions, kinship organization and soul beliefs which have changed under Soviet rule. Aspects of shamanic epistemology and curing survive, although native medical logic sometimes clashes with modern positivist medicine. Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology. The changing social context of shamanism is explored in a framework of Soviet pressure to reject shamanic 'superstitution' and 'exploration'. Shamans themselves have adapted their politics, diagnoses and symbolic actions to an increasingly cold social climate. Data results from ethno-historical and field research, including a summer 1975 trip to the Ob-Ugrian Khanty (Ostiak). shamanism cosmology medicine Siberia
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Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics
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title Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics
title_short Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics
title_full Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics
title_fullStr Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics
title_full_unstemmed Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics
title_sort behind shamanism: changing voices of siberian khanty cosmology and politics
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