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Shamanic Worlds : Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
author
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Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam.
publisher
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ME Sharpe, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
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1563249731
print isbn13
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9781563249730
ebook isbn13
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9780585201368
language
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English
subject
Shamanism--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Folklore--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Turkic peoples--Religion, Buriats--Social life and customs, Siberia (Russia)--Religious life and customs.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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BL2370.S5S477 1997eb
ddc
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299/.43
subject
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Shamanism--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Rites and ceremonies--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Folklore--Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Turkic peoples--Religion, Buriats--Social life and customs, Siberia (Russia)--Religious life and customs.
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Shamanic Worlds
Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Editor
An imprint of M.E. Sharpe Inc. Armonk, New York London, England
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Copyright 1997 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.
This North Castle paperback edition is a revised and expanded version of the collection Shamanism: Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia published by M.E. Sharpe in 1990. Translations were previously published in the journals
Soviet Anthropology and Archeology/Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia and Shaman: Journal of the International Society for Shamanistic Research.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shamanic Worlds: rituals and lore of Siberia and Central Asia / edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer. p. c.m. Originally published: New York : M. E. Sharpe, 1990. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56324-973-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. ShamanismRussia (Federation)Siberia. 2. Rites and ceremoniesRussia (Federa tion)Siberia. 3. FolkloreRussia (Federation)-Siberia. 4. Turkic peoplesReligion. 5. Siberia (Russia)Religious life and customs. BL2370.S5L35 1997 299'.43dc20 96-28497 CIP
Cover: The cover art is adapted from a drawing by Vasily Parnikov, Sakha (Yakut) artist, one of the first to portray shamans in a positive light in the Soviet period. "Udagan (Female Shaman)," 1981.
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984.
This book is dedicated to the Evenk shaman Matriona Petrovna Kurbeltinova, whose life spanned the twentieth century and whose wisdom and kindness spans the ages.
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CONTENTS
About the Editor and the Contributors
ix
Introduction
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
xiii
Part I. Debates, Definitions, and Indigenous Perspectives
Chosen by the Spirits
Vladimir N. Basilov
3
Shamans and Their Religious Practices from Shamanism Among the Turkic Peoples of Siberia
Nikolai A. Alekseev
49
Tuvan Shamanic Folklore
Mongush B. Kenin-Lopsan
110
Healing Techniques Among Evn Shamans
Anatoly Alekseev
153
Part II. Wedding Theory and Field Data
The Teleut Ritual Chymyr: Exorcism and Explanation
Dmitri A. Funk
165
The Archaic Epic and Its Relationship to Ritual: from Ritual and Folklore in Siberian Shamanism
Elena S. Novik
185
Part III. A Final Tribute
The Evenk Alga Ritual of Blessing: Matriona Kurbeltinova In Action
Nadezhda Ia. Bulatova
237
Bibliography
243
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ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
MARJORIE MANDELSTAM BALZER (Ph.D., anthropology, 1979) is Research Professor at Georgetown University in the Sociology Department and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), where she coordinates the CERES program "Social, Regional, and Ethnic Issues." She is editor of the M.E. Sharpe journal Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia and of the books Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia (1995); and Russian Traditional Culture (1992). She has done several years of fieldwork in the former Soviet Union, beginning in 1975, especially in western Siberia (with the Ob-Ugrian Khanty, 1976, 1991) and the Far East (Sakha Republic, Yakutia, 1986, periodically each year 1991-95). She writes on religion, nationalism, and gender in the former Soviet Union.
VLADIMIR NIKOLAEVICH BASILOV is a well-known Russian ethnographer, head of the Section of Central Asian and Kazakhstan Research in the Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Basilov's main field sites are in Central Asia, with focus on Uzbekistan and extensive comparative knowledge of Kazakhstan and Siberia. He is author of many books and articles, including
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