Singing story, healing drum : shamans and storytellers of Turkic Siberia /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2004. |
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Summary: | Singing Story, Healing Drum explores the shamanic practices, worldview, oral traditions, and music of the Turkic peoples of Tuva and Khakassia (south Siberia), past and present. It is based on the author's fieldwork since 1993, conducting interviews, recording stories, participating in rituals and everyday life. Set in the context of social change in the post-Soviet period, it includes conversations, folktales, legends, and shamanic poems that illuminate spiritual traditions, and introduces ethnographic literature in Russian, mostly unavailable in the West. Wherever possible, the material comes through the voices of indigenous people: scholars, practitioners, and participants in cultural review. |
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Physical Description: | xxv, 205 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index. |
ISBN: | 029598418X 0773526161 |
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