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Popular beliefs and folklore tradition in Siberia / V. Diószegi, editor ; english translation revised by Stephen P. Dunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Uralic and Altaic series.
- Uralic and Altaic series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore.
- Siberia, Eastern (Russia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (498 p.)
- Edition:
- English translation revised by Stephen P. Dunn. Reprint 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [1968]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Antal Reguly
- Seite Cult and Drum Magic of the Lapps
- Survivals of Totemism in the Hungarian táltos Tradition
- The Hungarian Shaman's Technique of Trance Induction
- Some Observances and Customs of the Mansi (Voguls) in Connection with Childbirth
- Two Purification Rites in the Bear Cult of the Ob-Ugrians
- On Some Ancient Anthropomorphic Images from West Siberia
- Khanty (Ostyak) Sheds for Sacrificial Objects
- An Ostyak Tale from M.A. Castrén's Manuscripts
- On the Trail of Ostyak (Khanty) Mythical Songs
- Funeral Rites among the Enets (Yenisei Samoyeds)
- On Some Problems of Versification in Samoyed Shamanistic Songs
- How Sereptie Djaruoskin of the Nganasans (Tavgi Samoyeds) Became a Shaman
- The Classification of Samoyed Shamans
- The Cult of Bear among the Ket (Yenisei Ostyaks)
- Survivals of Fotemism in the Ancestor Cult of the Kazan Tatars
- Shamans' Drums of Altaic Ethnic Groups
- The Protection of Children among the Shors
- The Problem of the Ethnic Homogeneity of Tofa (Karagas) Shamanism
- The Tuvan (Soyot) Shaman's Drum and the Ceremony of its 'Enlivening'
- The Acquisition of Shamanistic Ability among the Evenki (Tungus)
- Shamanistic Songs of the Evenki (Tungus)
- A Nanai (Gold) Tale about the Fortieth Brother and His Wife, a Washbear (Ursus lotor)
- The Three-Grade Amulets among the Nanai (Golds)
- Features of the Ancient Religious Rites and Taboos of the Nivkhi (Gilyaks)
- Remarks on Nivkhi (Gilyak) Proper Names (Anthroponyms)
- Popular Conceptions, Religious Beliefs and Rites of the Asiatic Eskimoes
- The Preservation of Animal Bones in the Hunting- Rites of Some North-Eurasian Peoples
- Mother Cult in Siberia
- About the Alt of the Ancient Tribes of the Lower Tomi
- Two Asiatic Sidereal Names
- Abbreviations
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783112414545
- 3112414543
- OCLC:
- 1243311632
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