Buryat Shamanism: Home and Hearth — A Territorialism of the Spirit
Anthropology of Consciousness December 1, 1999 Eva Jane Neumann Fridman 1 citation
In the regeneration of shamanism in Buryatia, kinship and locale play a significant and, indeed, determining role. Shamans, as representatives of their clans and kinship lines, are the intermediaries between people and the sacred, between people and the spirits in nature, in particular spirits of a specific locale which is linked historically to a clan and to the ancestors who have been buried...