Whose Steeple is Higher? Religious Competition in Siberia1

Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam

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“…Indeed, practising as a shaman, at that time, promised an economic stability similar to working for one of the state's institutions, where the most lucrative posts were available. This, along with the collective and bureaucratic form of societies, increased suspicion around the quality and authenticity of shamanic performances, echoing the waves of scepticism surrounding the resurgence of shamanism in other parts of Siberia (see Balzer 2005; Buyandelger 2007; Pedersen 2011). Shamans started to be considered as greedy business people focused more on making a profit than helping their clients (see also Lindquist 2008; Pimenova 2013).…”

Section: Sound In Transitionmentioning

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Voiced into being: the power of sound and the phenomenon of cursing in Kyzyl, Tuva

Stelmaszyk

2020

Royal Anthropological Inst

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In this article, I explore the way sound itself is imbued with agency. By focusing on its transformative rather than mimetic qualities, I analyse how in ritual contexts people construct and experience relationships through sound. Taking as an example a curse deflection ritual in Tuva, I trace ideas about the production of sounds as key to shamanic vocal performances. Through showing how sounds facilitate intermittent oral, tactile, and visual encounters with nonhumans, I suggest that shamans voice spirits into being, thereby allowing sound and shamanic voice to become central aspects of navigating sociocosmic dynamics and removing curses. While illuminating further the importance which people ascribe to the fragmentary sensory experience of an ‘Other’, I explore how sounds make spirits materially present and how this, in turn, shapes and validates the potency of shamanic practice.

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Section: Sound In Transitionmentioning

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Voiced into being: the power of sound and the phenomenon of cursing in Kyzyl, Tuva

Stelmaszyk

2020

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…kulturę algysu, zaś pracujący tam algyschyci oferują sprawowanie algysu np. dla nowożeńców (więcej o Domu Oczyszczenia w: Balzer 2005).…”

Section: Idea Jakuckiej Religii I Znaczenie Ysyachu Dla Jej Propagowaniaunclassified

Współczesne rekonstrukcje jakuckich wierzeń religijnych w obchodach święta Ysyakh

Lipiński¹

2020

LUD

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The idea of the Yakut religion and the celebration of Ysyach festival in the Sakha Republic Streszczenie: Od początku istnienia Republiki Sacha podejmowano tam wiele działań na rzecz zachowania odrębności kulturowej Jakutów i wzmocnienia ich tożsamości. Służyć temu miały między innymi przyznanie tradycyjnemu świętu Ysyach statusu święta narodowego oraz próby tworzenia jakuckiej religii narodowej. Jej podstawą jest tzw. doktryna ajyy, opracowana przez przedstawicieli jakuckiej inteligencji narodowej. W artykule pokazuję, w jakich sferach funkcjonowania dzisiejszego Ysyachu widoczne są jej wpływy oraz jakie jest znaczenie święta dla jej propagowania.

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“…The cultural developments among the colonized people of the former Russian Empire differ from those among the people from the European part of Russia. The colonial past of the former is embedded in ambiguous resistance to the Soviet past, which is mediated through rituals, folk medicine, and attitudes toward the state (Balzer 1996(Balzer , 1999(Balzer , 2001(Balzer , 2005Bloch 2001;Rethman 2001). Sabloff (2001) argued that Mongolia has its own concept of democracy from its distant history.…”

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Post-Post-Transition Theories: Walking on Multiple Paths

Buyandelgeriyn

2008

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This article reviews recent ethnographic works on the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe, and Mongolia that explore the experiences of people enduring drastic transformations following the collapse of socialism in 1990 and the consequent implementation of a neoliberal "shock therapy." The anthropologists working on postsocialist societies have shown that transition theories are inherently faulty and their implementation often had damaging results. The current condition is not a period of transition or "bridge" between socialism and capitalism. Instead individuals' activities, memory, social networks, and culturally specific values lead to uncertainty as a state of dynamic being. This article argues that uncertainty is a complex conceptual space that offers further opportunities to step away from the evolutionary mode of thinking and to develop theories of multiple ways of being.

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Whose Steeple is Higher? Religious Competition in Siberia1

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Voiced into being: the power of sound and the phenomenon of cursing in Kyzyl, Tuva

Voiced into being: the power of sound and the phenomenon of cursing in Kyzyl, Tuva

Współczesne rekonstrukcje jakuckich wierzeń religijnych w obchodach święta Ysyakh

Post-Post-Transition Theories: Walking on Multiple Paths

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