The Telengits of Southern Siberia

Landscape, Religion and Knowledge in Motion

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Agnieszka Halemba

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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

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The religion of the many native peoples in Siberia and the Russian Arctic is often a sort of natural religion, or shamanism, which involves a natural, harmonious and evolving approach to the natural world and to social relations, and, as such, is akin to the sort of religion and approach to life sought after by many adherents of new religions, and of new movements within established religions, in the west. This book explores the religion and world outlook of the Telengits of Altai. Paradoxically, as the demand for national recognition grows among such peoples, and with it the need for more formal state structures, built around the nation, religion too begins to become formalised, and to lose its natural, all-pervasive character. With the Telengits, whose natural religion includes elements of Buddhism, this takes the form of a debate as to whether the state religion of their polity is to be Buddhism or, contrary to the character of shamanism, a formal, structured, fixed shamanism.

Author Biography:

Agnieszka E. Halemba has conducted anthropological research in southern Siberia since 1993. She received her first degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland. In 2002 she received her PhD in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, Poland.

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March 8th, 2006

Author

Agnieszka Halemba

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General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

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1 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

236

Series

Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Dimensions

156x234x18

ISBN-13

9780415360005

Product ID

5789259

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