Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia

Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia

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Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia

Singing Story, Healing Drum: Shamans and Storytellers of Turkic Siberia

Written by Kira Van Deusen
4.85 73,623 ratings
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Singing Story, Healing Drum explores the shamanic practices, worldview, oral traditions, and music of the Turkic peoples of Tuva and Khakassia (south Siberia), past and present. It is based on the author's fieldwork since 1993, conducting interviews, recording stories, participating in rituals and everyday life. Set in the context of social change in the post-Soviet period, it includes conversations, folktales, legends, and shamanic poems that illuminate spiritual traditions, and introduces ethnographic literature in Russian, mostly unavailable in the West. Wherever possible, the material comes through the voices of indigenous people: scholars, practitioners, and participants in cultural review.Kira Van Deusen presents an integrated, holistic picture of Turkic spiritual culture, exploring the inner world shamans and other visionaries describe and the ways they cross the boundaries between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. Since nomadic life is never static, its traditional expression comes through performing arts--music and oral poetry--more than visual representation. Most of these arts involve sound and the processes are equally as important as the results. They involve the whole community and are vital in the revival of indigenous culture today.

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Pages 205
Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
Published March 1, 2004
ISBN 565141
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Kira Van Deusen finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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