The Last Shaman — Religious Transformation among Circumpolar Indigenous Peoples from an Anthropological Perspective
Communications in Humanities Research November 11, 2025 Rui Lao
Traditional religions have often faced decline when meeting outside forces. Their loss, however, happens in different ways. For the Ewenki people, shamanism weakened mainly because of political control and modernization. Government policies forced them to settle down and turned their sacred rituals into cultural performances. For the Sami, the decline was not caused by modernization but by...