Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
December 1, 2015
Валентина Ивановна Харитонова
5 citations
The article reviews various modern practices associated with the concept of revived shamanism.Many of them have an indirect relation to actual shamanism and its revival.However, their adepts can consider themselves followers of traditional shamanism.The author reviews several variants of shamanic activity widely represented in modern Russia, such as: urban shamanism, experiential shamanism,...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
2009
Tatiana Bulgakova
1 citation
Every radical change that Nanai experienced in the 20th century divided the young people of this indigenous minority in Russia in two groupsradicals and conservatives, sharing values of the older generation.This way, in the period of establishing the Soviet power, radicals were members of the Young Communist League (Komsomol) who repressed shamans, whereas conservatives were those young people...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
2009
Marina Hakkarainen
Two opposite worlds are represented in the traditionalistic discourse about the Markovo village of Chukotka: the traditional world of the older generation, and the modern world of the young people.While elders are regarded as keepers of indigenous knowledge and shamanic powers, it is thought that youngsters who are living in the present-day urbanized village have lost connection with all these...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
2003
Anne Ferlat
9 citations
Since the 1990s various new pagan organisations have emerged in Russia.Religious phenomena known in Western Europe, such as the emergence of new religious movements, including the New Age, are also taking place in Russia.The article aims to find out whether the pagan movements in today's Russia are related and if so, how they are related according to the comparative perspective explicated by...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
1996
Mihály Hoppál
7 citations
A few decades ago it was generally held that shamanism in Siberia had ceased to exist and belonged among the worthless ideological memories of the past.This opinion prevailed both in the communist Soviet Union which still existed at that time, as well as in other parts of the world, in the western capitalist countries.In the mid-20th century and even in the sixties and seventies both...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
1996
Аадо Линтроп
3 citations
Aado LintropTubyaku Kosterkin was probably the last great Nganasan shaman.His father Dyukhade became well-known to the researchers of shamanism after the Russian ethnologist Andrei Popov had published his first book about Nganasans in 1936.Last chapters of this book ("Tavgitsy") contain rich data about Nganasan shamanism, obtained mostly from Dyukhade.The story about his initiatory visions and...
Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore
1996
Aado Lintrop
Belief in the hereditary transmission of shaman's gift is common to all Siberian shamanism. One can find corresponding motifs in Nganasan shamanism as well as in Tuvinian one. Often there is impossible to become a shaman without having shamans-ancestors in family. Sometimes they are namely the spirits of shamans-ancestors, who at first reveal themselves to the devotee and force him to...