3 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2015-2023
March 20, 2023 Eleanor Peers 2 citations
Like many other non-Russian peoples, the Indigenous Siberian Sakha community was engulfed in a movement for national revival from the late 1980s: this was their contribution to the “parade of nationalities” that eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet state. A key feature of the Sakha national revival was the revitalization of the Yhyakh, a shamanic ritual and festival that in previous...
Berghahn Books September 2, 2018 Eleanor Peers 2 citations
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Worldviews 2015 Eleanor Peers, Lyubov’ Kolodeznikova
The Sakha national revival in Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia, aims to recover dying elements of Sakha culture, in order to preserve the Sakha people’s distinctive identity. And yet this revival is itself imbued with assumptions rooted in the European cultures that initiated modernist colonisation. Contemporary Sakha shamanism reflects the tensions within the nationalist revival, in the contrasting...