A Visitor's Guide to Shamans and Shamanism
Sibirica March 1, 2020 Marisa Karyl Franz 1 citation
During the late imperial period, the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) in St. Petersburg published guidebooks documenting changes to its galleries and collections. One major reorganization eliminated a gallery dedicated to Russian ethnography, which had displayed Siberian, Central Asian, and some European Russian objects. Siberian and Central Asian materials were subsequently presented as part of an Asian ethnographic collection. Within this new arrangement, shamanism became a unifying category that portrayed Russia in Asia as a culturally contiguous imperial space located east of the Urals.