Author: Waldemar Jochelson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-11-12
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 3942883902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work the Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus, for which he also draws on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of northeastern Siberia.
Author: Rane Willerslev
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0816676267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts the Danish anthropologist's year living in exile in Siberia among Yukaghir hunters after fleeing from the police, who were set to arrest him because of his efforts to organize a fair-trade fur cooperative with the hunters.
Author: Silvia Tomášková
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-05-03
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0520955315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent’s eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history.
Author: Erich Kasten
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-11-22
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 3942883341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume the authors discuss the fascinating and eventful biographies as well as the significant scientific work of Waldemar Jochelson, Waldemar Bogoras and Lev Shternberg. They investigate the question of how these men became involved in ethnography towards the end of the 19th century, when they had to spend many years as political exiles in remote parts of northeastern Siberia. This early revolutionary commitment shed light on their empathetic and pioneering methods during their later fieldwork with local people. At the same time they incorporated important ideas from American cultural anthropology gained from their close collaboration with Franz Boas. Their initial aims and methods were also reflected in the ambitious community-oriented research programs that they later had conceptualized and launched together with other colleagues at Leningrad University.
Author: Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 019926662X
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Author: Waldemar Jochelson
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interrelationship, manners and customs of peoples of north Asia.
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2024-01-09
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 069126502X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.