Anna-Leena Siikala (1943-2016)
V. Anttonen
Temenos June 1, 2016 DOI: 10.33356/temenos.58355 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The text presents a biographical account of Anna-Leena Siikala as a leading scholar of shamanism and Northern Eurasian indigenous traditions, noting that her career from the 1960s followed the path of Martti Haavio and Lauri Honko and that she merged frameworks from folklore, comparative religion, anthropology, and the study of mentalities. Her 1978 dissertation, The Rite Technique of the Siberian Shaman, is described as reflecting the Finnish school of folklore and mythology. |
Abstract
Letters, between 2002 and 2009. Siikala was one of the world's leading scholars of shamanism, narrative traditions, and mythic landscapes among the indigenous peoples of Northern Eurasia.From the 1960s her career charted the course opened by Professors Martti Haavio and Lauri Honko.She adopted an approach to research in which conceptual frameworks developed in the fields of folklore, comparative religion, and social and cultural anthropology, as well as the study of mentalities, merged.Her doctoral dissertation, The Rite Technique of the Siberian Shaman (1978), reflects some of the peculiarities of the Finnish school of folklore and mythology initiated by the