Living the dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples September 1, 2024 Mally Stelmaszyk, Leonid Sungorkin
This article is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia, Russia, through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai (Indigenous peoples of Siberia, Russia; literally, people of the Earth) sama (shaman), hereafter, shaman, brings together diverse...