Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (8)

Authors

Bulgakova, Tatiana D.

Contact information

Bulgakova, Tatiana D.: Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-3868-0729

Keywords

shamanism; methodology of field research; Nanai shamanic culture; religious fragmentation of ethnic community

Abstract

Due to the increasing complexity of the social and religious life of modern Nanai people, the conditions of the researcher’s field work are changing. The ethnic dimension is becoming less significant for many informants, and factors external to the Nanai culture are increasingly influencing the formation of their worldview. The introduction of some Nanai people to new religions contributes to the fragmentation of the socio- religious structure. Therefore, different informants with different social and religious positions may give contradictory answers to the same questions asked by a researcher in the field, and unjustifiably narrowing the circle of interviewees may provide the researcher with insufficiently representative material and limit his ability to holistically understand the culture under study. Only if one is aware of the discursive boundaries within the society under study can one rely on relevant field material as a reliable basis for subsequent conceptual analysis

Pages

1612–1621

EDN

JRZMQC

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/156702

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