Czy postsocjalizm wytworzy „postszamanizm”? O problemach badań współczesnego syberyjskiego szamanizmu
Wojciech PoÅeÄ
Prace Etnograficzne 2017 DOI: 10.4467/22999558.pe.17.022.8681 (opens in new tab)
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| Key findings | Argues that the post-Soviet reappearance of Siberian shamanism cannot be explained simply by the collapse of communism, and that asking whether shamanism continues requires specifying whether the whole system or only chosen manifestations persist, while accounting for changing cultural and social contexts and relations with indigenous cultures. |
Abstract
Will Post-socialism Create "Post-shamanism"? On the Problems of Research on Modern Siberian ShamanismTh e article describes the problem of mutual relations between the "post-Soviet" situation and the process of renaissance or the "rebirth" of shamanism.Th e author asks the question whether a suffi cient explanation for the reappearance of shamanism in Siberia is the collapse of the communist system.Th e next question is whether contemporary shamanism is a completely diff erent phenomenon than pre-revolutionary shamanism and may be considered as "neo-shamanism".Th e author claims that in the case of Siberian shamanism, when asking about the continuity of shamanism, we also need to ask ourselves whether we mean the continuation of the whole system or only its chosen manifestations.We must take into account the changing cultural and social context of shamanism and relationships between shamanism and the cultures of indigenous peoples.Empirical base of this paper are four fi eldworks in the south of Siberia in the years 2000, 2010, 2013 and 2014.