Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (7)
- Authors
- Bulgakova, Tatiana D.
- Contact information
- Bulgakova, Tatiana D. : Herzen State Pedagogical University of Rusia, Institute of the Peoples of the North Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-3868-0729
- Keywords
- shamanism; methodology of field research; hidden meanings of culture
- Abstract
In the context of the inevitable conflict of shamanic practice and the divergence of interests of its various participants, discursive boundaries are being formed that separate groups of shamanists according to the degree of awareness. Information closeness performs a positive function for shamanic practice, stabilizing it, turning out to be a necessary means of preventing undesirable collisions and a way to stabilize and self-preserve the system of shamanic practice as a whole. In order to gain a holistic understanding of shamanic practice, researchers have to take into account the factor of uneven awareness of respondents in their fieldwork. Recording field data from informants of different levels of competence, including the most knowledgeable of them, avoids the risk of limiting the scope of research to the discursive practice of insufficiently informed shamanists, and also contributes to a holistic perception of the phenomenon under study
- Pages
- 1353–1363
- EDN
- QVSLHU
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/156651
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