Tribes along the lower Amur

 

"Woman Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur" [ lower Amur ]

p. xxi "The northern Tungus languages include Even and Evenk,

while southern Tungus include Nanai, Udegei, Ul’chi, Nedigal, Manchu, Sibu, and Solon." Formerly, "the name Tungus was applied specifically to the people now called Evenk."

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pp. 3-33 – 1. Udegei

 

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pp. 34-57 – 2. Udegei [further]

 

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pp. 58-70 – 3. Nivkh

 

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pp. 71-93. – 4. Nanai

 

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pp. 94-116. – 5. Nanai [further]

 

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pp. 117-147 – 6. Udegei [yet further]

 

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pp. 148-184 – 7. Ul’chi

pp.151-152 housing & clothing

 

pp. 152-154 bear caerimony

 

pp. 162-163 curing of children by shamaness’s returning of their souls to them

 

p. 163 [Nanai] "the shaman does a ritual to return the soul permanently when the child is anywhere from ten to twenty years old, or times at the time of marriage."

p. 166 divination by shamaness ["She had a roomer, who ... was her lover, but he was not at home."]

 

pp. 170-172 divine tigre husband of shamaness

 

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pp. 185-226 – 8. Nanai [yet further]

p. 185 shaman’s equipment : "His belt was very heavy ... . The heavier the belt, the better it helped hold the shaman to the ground."

drum of a mite

 

pp. 219-220 forgiveness by the spirits

 

p. 220 A tudin (shaman’s assistant) "can follow the shaman on the journey and occasionally keep the shaman from going astray in another world."

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MCGILL-QUEEN’S NATIVE AND NORTHERN SERIES, 25 = Kira van Deusen : The Flying Tiger. Montreal & Kingston, 2001.