Tiger rituals and beliefs in shamanic Tungus-Manchu cultures

This paper proposes a comparative analysis across space and time of tiger rituals and beliefs among the Amur Tungus-Manchu peoples. These shamanistic peoples treat tigers like humans and believe that some extraordinary tigers have the ability to behave in similar ways to people. According to these s...

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Published in:Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
Main Author: Bulgakova, Tatiana
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.3486
http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/3486