Old Woman Tady's Virtual Drum. Traditional Sagai Shamanism Relics at the Boundary of the Millennia

Kharitonova, Valentina (2005) Old Woman Tady's Virtual Drum. Traditional Sagai Shamanism Relics at the Boundary of the Millennia. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 50 (1-3). pp. 227-239. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

The article is based on Diószegi's studies of traditional shamans in the mid-20th century and the modern case study of “a female shaman without a drum”, a specific history of the transformation of traditional professional Sagai shamanism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia is provided. Unique materials are illustrated, shamanic perceptions and religious practices of old woman Tadyare analysed.

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