TRACING SHAMANS IN TUVA
TRACING SHAMANS IN TUVA
Author(s): Mihály HoppálSubject(s): Cultural history, Regional Geography, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: shamanism; Tuva; history of studies on shamanism; Tofa; healing; shamanic renewal; Uriankhai;
Summary/Abstract: In the geographical center of Asia – in today’s Tuva Republic, within the frame of the Russian Federation – there lives a small ethnic group which the historical and ethnographic literature variously calls Soyot, Uriankhai, Tofa, Todzha. To fully appreciate the work of Mongush Kenin-Lopsan (1997), it is worth getting to know the history of research on Tuva shamanism. We need to do so especially since Hungarian researchers, including Vilmos Diószegi (1923–1972), the teacher of the present author, also collected in Tuva in 1958 and published important studies. This is why we have borrowed, with a slight change, the title of his book published in English (Diószegi 1968) as the title of this overview.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 48/2003
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 465-481
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
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