Old Woman Tady's Virtual Drum. Traditional Sagai Shamanism Relics at the Boundary of the Millennia
Old Woman Tady's Virtual Drum. Traditional Sagai Shamanism Relics at the Boundary of the Millennia
Author(s): Valentina KharitonovaSubject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Communism
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: shamanism in Khakasia; Sagai shamans; evolution of shamanism in Soviet time; “shamans without a drum”; shaman disease; shaman séance;
Summary/Abstract: The article is based on Diószegi’s studies of traditional shamans in the mid-20th century and the modern case study of “a female shaman without a drum”, a specific history of the transformation of traditional professional Sagai shamanism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia is provided. Unique materials are illustrated, shamanic perceptions and religious practices of old woman Tady are analysed.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 50/2005
- Issue No: 1-3
- Page Range: 227-239
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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