Shamans' Ritual of the Former Vilyui District (Texts)
Materials on Religious History of the Yakuts of the Former Vilyui District
(
Part 3
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Novosibirsk: IAkutsk
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The book is a complete publication of 31 shamanistic rituals written down by the notorious ethnographer A.A.Popov 1922-1925 in the former Vilyui District in Yakut with their parallel translation into Russian. The scholarly apparatus contains articles on Yakut shamanism, stories and legends about shamans, as well sa a dictionary and an index of terms. The texts are accompanied with the author’s field notes.