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Attribution
Kira Van Deusen
Publication Details
Book, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009
Description
After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such questions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer’s “Odysseus” - told by forty Inuit elders. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Tags
Inuit · Nunavut · Folklore · Legends · Russia · Siberia · Shamanism · Storytelling · Kiviuq (Legendary character) · Van Deusen, Kira, 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E99.E7 V36 2009 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E99.E7 V36 2009	AVAILABLE

Attribution
Kira Van Deusen
Publication Details
Book, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004
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Description
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. Set in the context of social change in the post-Soviet period, it includes conversations, folktales, legends, adn shamanic poems that illuminate spiritual traditions, and introduces ethnographic literature in Russian, mostly unavailable in the West. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Tuvinians · Folklore · Khakassians · Music · History and criticism · Religion · Shamanism · Russia · Siberia · Storytelling · Tuva (Russia) · Social life and customs · Khakasskaia respublika (Russia) · Van Deusen, Kira, 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) GR345 .V357 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GR345 .V357 2004	AVAILABLE