Worldviews and Ritual Practice: Coastal Koryaks (Nymylans), Lesnaya, Kamchatka

ISBN 10: 3942883325 / ISBN 13: 9783942883320

Published by Verlag Der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Worldviews and Ritual Practice: Coastal Koryaks (Nymylans), Lesnaya, Kamchatka
• Publisher: Verlag Der Kulturstiftung Sibirien
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3942883325
• ISBN 13: 9783942883320
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive compilation of Koryak texts with Russian and English translations. It contains information to worldviews and ritual practices by Koryak (Nymylan) people living on the north-west coast of Kamchatka.

About the Author

Erich Kasten studied social and cultural anthropology and taught at the Free University of Berlin. He has conducted extensive field research in the Canadian Pacific Northwest and in Kamchatka and has curated international museum exhibitions. As the first coordinator of the Siberian research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, he studied transformations in Post-Soviet Siberia. In ensuing projects for UNESCO and the National Science Foundation, he documented and analyzed indigenous knowledge. Since 2010 he has been the director of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures in Fürstenberg/Havel (Germany). More recently he has also applied himself to developing web archives and Internet interfaces with the purpose of enhancing access and sustaining endangered cultural heritage.