Tigers and the Internet: Story, Shamans, History - Hardcover

Van Deusen, Kira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0228011140 ISBN 13: 9780228011149

Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The Udege, a small Indigenous group in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions of Russia, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. They speak the Udege language, and their religious beliefs include animism and shamanism. Over two decades, Kira Van Deusen travelled across Russia interviewing Udege storytellers in order to record their folktales.Tigers and the Internet recounts individual storytellers’ lives and the stories that they related to Van Deusen. Combining the translated stories with detailed commentary, background information on the storytellers, and historical context to the themes they explore, Van Deusen provides a rich and moving text that allows the reader to travel with her through time and space. She respectfully shares the stories with a wider audience and preserves them in English for future generations. Readers will learn about the folktales of the Udege, but also about their contemporary lives and connections with other Indigenous groups.The Udege are not widely known outside of Russia. Tigers and the Internet provides a valuable collection of first-hand stories that shows this fascinating culture to those interested in folklore, Indigenous histories, and cultural studies.

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Kira Van Deusen is a storyteller and musician and the author of Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins and The Flying Tiger: Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur. She lives in Vancouver, BC.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0228011140
• ISBN 13: 9780228011149
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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