This study presents a comprehensive analysis of Dolgan churchyards as a unique cultural space. It enables us to identify key features of material culture, to examine the mechanisms of religious syncretism and their connection with ethnic traditions, and to assess the significance of these sites for understanding the history of wooden architecture in the Arctic region. The research is based on a...
The work is aimed at identifying the image of the sable in the traditional worldview and rituals of the Buryats. The chronological boundaries of the study are determined by the time of functioning and translation of the com-plex of traditional beliefs and rituals among the Buryats — the end of the 19th — middle of the 20th century. Geo-graphically, the study is focused on the Baikal region,...
The paper is dedicated to Andrey Viktorovich Anokhin, a renowned scholar of shamanism of the Turkic peoples of Siberia. The paper precedes publication of A.V. Anokhin's letter to ethnographer Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg discovered in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of RAS. The main subject of the letter is female characters-deities in Altai shamanism, with whom Kam enters into an...