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010101 VU Introducing Siberian Shamanism (2025S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 03.02.2025 10:00 to Tu 25.02.2025 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 15.03.2025 23:59
Details
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 02.06. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 (Kath) Schenkenstraße EG
- Tuesday 03.06. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 1 (Kath) Schenkenstraße EG
- Wednesday 04.06. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 (Kath) Schenkenstraße EG
- Thursday 05.06. 08:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum 3 (Kath) Schenkenstraße EG
- Friday 06.06. 08:00 - 14:45 Seminarraum 3 (Kath) Schenkenstraße EG
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
The course assessment comprises of attendance (30%), participation in class (30 %) and a written contribution (40%).In the case of suspicion of non-transparent use of AI (e.g. through citation or indication of the type of use), the course instructor has the right to conduct a “grade-relevant discussion".
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
You may be absent without excuse for two units.
Examination topics
The topics covered in the lectures. The main theme has to relate a problem addressed in the lecture to the topic you are most interested in. E.g.If you're interested in Judaism: "Shamanic traces in Jewish Kabbalah".Or maybe you study the history of art? "The artist-painter as the informational channel. The paintings of Francis Bacon".Historical studies? "Jesus was a shaman and I will prove it".Economy? "What feature of capitalism blocks the emergence of shamanism in contemporary Western society?"Cultural Anthropology? "Vodou houngan is a shaman. The comparison between shamanism and vodou as a possession cult".
Reading list
Findeisen, Hans. 1957. Schamanentum: dargestellt am Beispiel der Besessenheitspriester nordeurasiatischer Völker. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag.Forsyth, James. 1992. A History of the Peoples of Siberia. Russia’s North Asian Colony 1581-1990. New York: Cambridge University Press.Hamayon, Roberte N. 2012. “The Three Duties of Good Fortune: ‘Luck’ as a Relational Process among Hunting Peoples of the Siberian Forest in Pre-Soviet Times.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology 56 (1): 99-116.Lindgren, Ethel J. 1938. “An Example of Culture Contact without Conflict: Reindeer Tungus and Cossacks of Northwestern Manchuria.” American Anthropologist 40 (4): 605–621.Sem, T. (ed.), Шаманизм народов Сибири. Этнографические материалы XVIII-ХХвв.: Хрестоматия [Shamanism of the Siberian People. Ethnographic Materials of the XVIII-XX centuries: Chrestomathy], Saint Petersburg: St. Petersburg: Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University 2006.Shirokogoroff, Sergei M. 1999. Psychomental Complex of the Tungus. Berlin: Reinhold Schletzer Verlag.Siikala, Anna-Leena. 1992. “Siberian and Inner Asian Shamanism.” In Studies on Shamanism, edited by Anna-Leena Siikala and Mihály Hoppal, 1-13. Helsinki and Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.Stépanoff, Charles. 2019. Voyager dans l'invisible: techniques chamaniques de l'imagination. Paris: La Découverte.Suslov, Innokenty M. 1983. Materialen zum Schamanismus der Ewenki-Tungusen an der Mittleren und Unteren Tunguska. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Vasilevich, Glafira. 1971. “Дошаманские и шаманские верования эвенков”. Sovetskaja ètnografija, 5: 53–60.
Association in the course directory
066 800 M2.7, M15, M 18, BRP 09rwb (statt VO zu Afroamerikanischen Religionen), BRP 17rwb
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Peculiarities of the shamanism in Siberia in comparison with other cultural-geographical areas;
Trance, spirit possession, and altered states of consciousness (on the example of the Yukaghir shaman ritual)
Yakut religion: shamanic initiation, rituals, myths, gods;
Shamanism, and clan warfare;
Evenki shamanism as a mass phenomenon; shaman as a 'safety valve'
Paleo-Siberians: Ket, Yukaghirs, Chukchi, Koryak;
The problem of shamanic transvestism.