The "Vertical Shamanic Power": The Use of Political Discourse in Post-Soviet Tuvan Shamanism
The "Vertical Shamanic Power": The Use of Political Discourse in Post-Soviet Tuvan Shamanism

Summary/Abstract: This article addresses the use of political discourse and the shaong of institutionalized organizations in post-Soviet shamanism in the south Siberian Republic of Tuva. It argues that many organizational features of today's shamanism result from the creative integration of legal, academic, and political concepts that have been mostly elaborated under the Soviet/Russian centralized state governance and were thus historically alien to shamanic practice and discourse. In English, extended summary in Russian.

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