Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism

Devlet, Ekaterina G.

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“…Shamanism may have been practiced by the Daur as well as other Indigenous groups in North Asia since ancient times. Archaeological research suggests that shamanic practices might be traced back to the Bronze Age in Central and North Asia (Devlet 2001;Rozwadowski 2017). The first appearance of the word "shaman" is from a Medieval Chinese documentary book Sanchao beimeng huibian 三朝北盟会编 (Collection of documents on the treaties with the North during three reigns) compiled by Xu Mengxin of the Song Dynasty .…”

Section: A Brief History Of Daur Shamanismmentioning

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Embodiment of Ancestral Spirits, the Social Interface, and Ritual Ceremonies: Construction of the Shamanic Landscape among the Daur in North China

Qiu

2021

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The case study in this paper is on the Daur (as well as the Evenki, Buriat, and Bargu Mongols) in Hulun Buir, Northeast China. The aim of this research is to examine how shamanic rituals function as a conduit to actualize communications between the clan members and their shaman ancestors. Through examinations and observations of Daur and other Indigenous shamanic rituals in Northeast China, this paper argues that the human construction of the shamanic landscape brings humans, other-than-humans, and things together into social relations in shamanic ontologies. Inter-human metamorphosis is crucial to Indigenous self-conceptualization and identity. Through rituals, ancestor spirits are active actors involved in almost every aspect of modern human social life among these Indigenous peoples.

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Section: A Brief History Of Daur Shamanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodiment of Ancestral Spirits, the Social Interface, and Ritual Ceremonies: Construction of the Shamanic Landscape among the Daur in North China

Qiu

2021

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“…Интерес представляют работы, в которых Е. Г. совместно с М. А. Дэвлет сделаны попытки интерпретации наскальных рисунков, связанных с ритуальными практиками шаманов, их одеждой и атрибутикой. Помимо многочисленных статей (см., например: Дэвлет М., Дэвлет Е., 1999; 2003; Дэвлет, 2004), несомненным вкладом в изучение шаманских практик и их отражения в наскальном искусстве Северной Азии можно считать участие в коллективных монографиях на английском языке, изданных в Великобритании и Польше (Devlet, 2001;Devlet E., Devlet M., 2002).…”

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Overview of the Film Collection of the Scientific Archives of the Institute of Archaeology, Ras

Володин¹,

Кочкаров²,

Кудрявцев³

et al. 2019

Краткие Сообщения Института Археологии (КСИА)

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Статья посвящена обзору кинофонда Научно-отраслевого архива ИА АН, оцифровка которых завершилась в 2018 г. Фильмокопии включают в себя съемки работ ряда археологических экспедиций на территории СССР, Монголии и Албании во второй половине 1940-х - 1960-х гг. научно-популярные фильмы об археологии и антропологии, документальные фильмы об известных археологах материалы, переданные сотрудниками ИА РАН. Материалы Научно-отраслевого архива ИА РАН являются важным источником по истории советской и российской археологии. Киноматериалы ряда экспедиций второй половины 1940-х - 1960-х гг. являются существенным дополнением к их отчетной документации. The paper provides an overview of the Scientific Archives of the Institute of Archaeology, RAS, the digitalization of which was completed in 2018. The film copies contain footage of a number of archaeological expeditions conducted in the USSR, Mongolia and Albania in the second half of 1940s - 1960s popular science films about archaeology and anthropology documentaries about famous archaeologists materials provided by the employees of the IA, RAS. The materials of the Scientific Archives of the Institute of Archaeology are an important source of information on the history of Soviet and Russian archaeology. Film footage of a number of expeditions in the second half of 1940s - 1960s is an important supplement to their reporting documentation.

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“…In Siberia it is more often treated as a local cultural tradition with its associated internal (beliefs) and external (attributes) features. Tracing shamanism in Siberian rock art, therefore, mainly involves a search for formal analogies by finding a rock-art image corresponding with ones found in historical documents and ethnographic records of the shaman (Devlet 2001;Rozwadowski 2012c; exceptional are petroglyphs of far east Siberian Chukotka, which were related to shamanism through the resemblance of human figures' heads to mushrooms: Dikov & Bland 1999). The phenomenological methodology devised in rock-art studies in the late 1980s that focuses on trance experiences, which in Western studies of rock art have become a synonym for shamanism, has only recently become engaged with in studies from Siberia and Central Asia by the author (Rozwad-owski 2001a,b; and others (Lymer 2000;2009a,b).…”

Section: Central Asian and Siberian Rock Art And Shamanismmentioning

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Travelling Through the Rock to the Otherworld: The Shamanic ‘Grammar of Mind’ Within the Rock Art of Siberia

Rozwadowski¹

2017

CAJ

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One of the aspects of the relationship between rock art and shamanism, which has been supposed to be of a universal nature, inspired by trance experience, concerns the intentional integration of the images with rock. Rock surface therefore has been interpreted, in numerous shamanic rock-art contexts, as a veil beyond which the otherworld could be encountered. Such an idea was originally proposed in southern Africa, then within Upper Palaeolithic cave art and also other rock-art traditions in diverse parts of the world. This paper for the first time discusses the relevance of this observation from the perspective of unquestionable shamanic culture in Siberia. It shows that the idea of the otherworld to be found on the other side of the rock actually is a widespread motif of shamanic beliefs in Siberia, and that variants of this belief provide a new mode of insight into understanding the semantics of Siberian rock art. Siberian data therefore support previous hypotheses of the shamanic nature of associating rock images with rock surface.

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Rock art and the material culture of Siberian and Central Asian shamanism

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Embodiment of Ancestral Spirits, the Social Interface, and Ritual Ceremonies: Construction of the Shamanic Landscape among the Daur in North China

Embodiment of Ancestral Spirits, the Social Interface, and Ritual Ceremonies: Construction of the Shamanic Landscape among the Daur in North China

Overview of the Film Collection of the Scientific Archives of the Institute of Archaeology, Ras

Travelling Through the Rock to the Otherworld: The Shamanic ‘Grammar of Mind’ Within the Rock Art of Siberia

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