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Through Dialogue with Contemporary Yakut Shamans: How They Revive Their Worldview
Author(s) -
Yamada Takako
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.1996.7.3.1
Subject(s) - relation (database) , aesthetics , epistemology , environmental ethics , sociology , philosophy , history , computer science , database
In this article I indicate the revitalization of Yakut worldview based on dialogues with contemporary shamans in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in 1994. Dualistic views of the world are emerging: the real and the spiritual worlds, and the separate concepts of good and evil spiritual beings. Also, the relation between man and spiritual beings has become idealized as a symbiotic relation between man and nature. This new animistic idea has resulted in suggesting the spiritual equality between human beings and nature and cyclic movements between the two.