Shamanic Dialogues with the Invisible Dark in Tuva, Siberia

The Cursed Lives

Konstantinos Zorbas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

125 Seiten

2021 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-6412-1 (ISBN)

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Intentional acts of “assault sorcery”, involving operations of extracting the souls of unsuspecting victims or eliminating one’s antagonists, are central to the perceived proliferation of occult threats and shamanic assassins in Tuva, Siberia. Following the restoration of shamanism as an official religion in the region, indigenous spiritual practitioners have propagated a vindictive strand of rituals, associated with supernatural retaliation and political assassination. This book probes the unforeseen implications of state-sanctioned appropriations of religious revival, through an unsettling context of encounters with various agencies embodying “dark shamanism”. The invisible presence of this shamanic complex is manifested in the book’s presentation of a shaman’s thoughts about an epidemic of curses, his counter-cursing rituals for Russians and ethnic Tuvans, and his dialogues with dead shamanic ancestors and spectres experiencing ideological tensions.

Konstantinos Zorbas studied Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, UK, and completed his doctorate in Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. He is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Shandong University, People’s Republic of China.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5275-6412-6 / 1527564126
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-6412-1 / 9781527564121
Zustand	Neuware