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Singing story, healing drum : shamans and storytellers of Turkic Siberia / Kira Van Deusen.
- Title
- Singing story, healing drum : shamans and storytellers of Turkic Siberia / Kira Van Deusen.
- Author
- Van Deusen, Kira, 1946-
- Publication
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.
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- Description
- xxv, 205 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Based on fieldwork, Singing Story, Healing Drum includes folktales, legends, and shamanic poems that illuminate spiritual traditions and rituals practised by the people of the Turkic republics of Tuva and Khakassia in south Siberia. Kira Van Deusen's acquaintance with scholars, shamans, and storytellers who have been active in reviving traditional ways of life allows her to present views from both inside and outside the culture and help the reader find a way through the often confusing phenomena of the "shamanic revival," both in Russia and abroad."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Khakassie (Russie) > Mœurs et coutumes
- Tuvinian (Turkic people) > Folklore
- Khakassians > Folklore
- Tradition orale > Russie > Sibérie
- Touvas > Musique > Histoire et critique
- Storytelling > Russia (Federation) > Siberia
- Art de conter > Russie > Sibérie
- Khakass > Religion
- Khakassians > Religion
- Touvas > Folklore
- Khakasskai͡a Respublika (Russia) > Social life and customs
- Khakass > Musique > Histoire et critique
- Tuva (Russia) > Social life and customs
- Shamanism > Russia (Federation) > Siberia
- Chamanisme > Russie > Sibérie
- Touvas > Religion
- Tuvinian (Turkic people) > Music > History and criticism
- Touva (Russie) > Mœurs et coutumes
- Oral tradition > Russia (Federation) > Siberia
- Khakass > Folklore
- Khakassians > Music > History and criticism
- Tuvinian (Turkic people) > Religion
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198) and index.
- Contents
- 1. History of Tuva and Khakassia -- 2. Tuvan and Khakass shamans -- A shaman in Stalin's time -- The horse thief -- Ondar's healing -- A shaman's competition -- Mitrei's initiation and divination through throwing the cup -- The voice of the mountain spirit -- 3. Spiritual geography and its inhabitants -- The dragon descended from the sky -- Sacred animals yzykh -- Saving the mountain -- The spirit of Sunduki -- Oskiis-ool and the daughter of Kurhustu-Khan -- 4. Storytellers, tales, and their characters -- Slava Kuchenov and the song spirits -- Storyteller Agol -- Andrei Chuldum-ool and the forty mice -- The bright man and the hunter -- The smart girl -- The stingy storyteller -- 5. The power of sound : music as a point of entry to the inner world -- Khoomei legend -- The Igil (I) -- The musical horse thief -- The Shoor -- The mistress of the Taiga -- The shoor player -- Chatkhan (I) -- Chatkhan (II) -- The invention of the Chadagan -- The igil (II) -- 6. Language and poetry as points of entry to the inner world -- Seventy languages -- Algysh for a new drum -- The shaman's prayer to the mountain -- Itpekov's song -- Norilkov's story -- 7. Contemporary shamans in Tuva and Khakassia -- Ilona's ancestors.
- ISBN
- 0773526161 :
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries