Contemporary “Shamanising Persons” among the Tungus-Manchu (Evenki, Even, and Nanai): Case Studies about Common Collective Spiritual Representations
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...
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ftuniparissaclay:oai:HAL:hal-03376078v1 2024-01-21T10:05:59+01:00 Contemporary “Shamanising Persons” among the Tungus-Manchu (Evenki, Even, and Nanai): Case Studies about Common Collective Spiritual Representations Lavrillier, Alexandra Sem, Tatiana Yu. Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) IEA CNRS 2021-09-28 https://hal.science/hal-03376078 https://doi.org/10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.32-51 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.32-51 hal-03376078 https://hal.science/hal-03376078 doi:10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.32-51 Religiovedenie [Study of Religion] https://hal.science/hal-03376078 Religiovedenie [Study of Religion], 2021, 2021, N°3, pp.32-51. ⟨10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.32-51⟩ https://religio.amursu.ru/index.php/en/ 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 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftuniparissaclay https://doi.org/10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.32-51 2023-12-23T22:31:48Z 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, and Khabarovskii krai, as wellas the relevant scholarly literature. Under Soviet anti-religious policies, the traditionalshamans of these peoples went into significant decline: the last traditional shamanspassed away in the 2010s, thus potentially disrupting the transmission of the shamanicfunction. Nevertheless, according to collective representations, the spirits are stillactive and continue elect people to become shamans. Our paper argues that thesepeoples are enduring “ritual wanderings”, wedged between a lack of individualsable to transmit the knowledge required to become a traditional shaman and the factthey reject urban/western neo-shamanism (in contrast to other Siberian peoples likethe Buriat, Tuva, Yakut, and Altai). Through the analysis of a mosaic of case studieson shamanising persons who are neither traditional shamans nor neo-shamans, wereveal many relationships with the spirits, the ways these people deal with shamanicelection, and the common core of the spiritual representations of the Tungus-Manchu.This paper contributes to the study of contemporary shamanism, Tungus-Manchucultures, and human-nature relationships. Article in Journal/Newspaper Evenki Kamchatka Yakut Siberia Archives ouvertes de Paris-Saclay Evenki ENVELOPE(132.817,132.817,59.683,59.683) Tuva ENVELOPE(12.506,12.506,65.215,65.215) Study of Religion 3 32 51 |
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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, and Khabarovskii krai, as wellas the relevant scholarly literature. Under Soviet anti-religious policies, the traditionalshamans of these peoples went into significant decline: the last traditional shamanspassed away in the 2010s, thus potentially disrupting the transmission of the shamanicfunction. Nevertheless, according to collective representations, the spirits are stillactive and continue elect people to become shamans. Our paper argues that thesepeoples are enduring “ritual wanderings”, wedged between a lack of individualsable to transmit the knowledge required to become a traditional shaman and the factthey reject urban/western neo-shamanism (in contrast to other Siberian peoples likethe Buriat, Tuva, Yakut, and Altai). Through the analysis of a mosaic of case studieson shamanising persons who are neither traditional shamans nor neo-shamans, wereveal many relationships with the spirits, the ways these people deal with shamanicelection, and the common core of the spiritual representations of the Tungus-Manchu.This paper contributes to the study of contemporary shamanism, Tungus-Manchucultures, and human-nature relationships. |
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Contemporary “Shamanising Persons” among the Tungus-Manchu (Evenki, Even, and Nanai): Case Studies about Common Collective Spiritual Representations |
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