A Childhood Reminiscence of Bear Ceremonialism among the Northern Selkups

The article is dedicated to the story of a bear feast celebrated in the Turukhan basin in the early 1960s and described half a century later, in 2014, by a participant of this ceremony who was a child by that time. As far as I know, this is the only description of a bear feast among Selkups recorded...

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Main Author: Kazakevich, Olga
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Szeged 2022
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Online Access:https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/stualtaica/article/view/44345
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Summary:The article is dedicated to the story of a bear feast celebrated in the Turukhan basin in the early 1960s and described half a century later, in 2014, by a participant of this ceremony who was a child by that time. As far as I know, this is the only description of a bear feast among Selkups recorded in Selkup, so its publication might be of interest.