Khanty and Mansi: the contemporary linguistic situation

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Foreword V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Themes and concepts
5. A new look at the world pillar in Arctic and sub- Arctic religions 31
6. C. G. Jung’s appropriation of aspects of shamanism 51
7. Game and games, fortune and dualism in Siberian shamanism 61
8. Body and soul in ancient Greenlandic religion 67
9. Part II: Northern Europe
10. Freyja and Frigg – two aspects of the Great Goddess 81
11. The perception of the Saamis and their religion in Old Norse sources 97
12. Some aspects of the Christianization of Central Sweden 117
13. The wizards of Lapland and Saami shamanism 125
14. Rationality and mythological foundations of calendar symbols of the ancient Komi 135
15. Materials on Komi-Zyryan mythology: Notions of the soul 143
16. Part III: Ugric People
17. Khanty shamanism today: Reindeer sacrifice and its mythological background 153
18. Similarities and differences in Eastern Khanty shamanism 183
19. Ugric mithraism 199
20. Khanty and Mansi: the contemporary linguistic situation 207
21. Part IV: Central and East Asia
22. Some remarks on the myths of the Flower Contest 221
23. The concept of gods in Korean shamanism 235
24. Recent East Mongolian shamanistic traditions 249
25. Shamanistic elements in early Confucianism 259
26. Mythology as an areal problem in the Altai- Sayan area: the sacred holes and caves 267
27. Archaic rites in Nanaian shamanic ceremonies 279
28. Part V: North Western Pacific
29. Ainu worldview and bear hunting strategies 293
30. Some shamanistic features of Ainu religion 305
31. Salmon in myth and ritual in the Northern Pacific area 313
32. Part VI: Encounters between ethnic and world religions
33. A dialogue between a shaman and a missionary in West Greenland in the 18th century: the sociology of a text 333
34. A Christian Dene Tha shaman? Aboriginal experiences among a missionized aboriginal people 349
35. The effect of the confessional factor on ethnicity 365
36. Christianization = Russification? On preserving the religious and ethnic identity of the Ob-Ugrians 373