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Siberian Book Project - THE LAST OF THE SHOR SHAMANS
THE LAST OF THE SHOR SHAMANS
O-Books 2008
This Dream Change supported publication preserves the legacy of the drumming shamans of the Shor Mountain region of Siberia. It may be the only way these shamans are remembered.
The Shor people number about 10,000 and in the 20th century were decimated by repression, alcohol and suicide. Yet they have managed to save their language and remnants of their culture. Many Shor shamans have passed on, the remainder are in their 80's. Their grandparents were the renowned Siberian 'drumming' shamans, most killed during the Soviet period. These - now older - Shor shamans are few in number and rarely experienced outside their isolated indigenous boundaries.
Alexander and Luba Arbachakov depict the culture and rituals of the Shor shamans. Directed by Llyn Roberts, funds were raised for Russian publication, then Dream Change orchestrated English translation (by Joanna Dobson), aided by the Wilderness Wisdom Fund. In May 2007 DC contracted for the Arbachakovs with O-Books and prepared the book for publication.
Photo of Shor Shaman Evdokiya Gavrilona Todyyakova ~ by Llyn Roberts
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Academic Praise for THE LAST OF THE SHOR SHAMANS
 by Alexander & Luba Arbachakov
Introduction by Llyn Roberts
O-Books 2008
ENDORSEMENTS:
The publication of Alexander and Luba Arbachakov's 2004 study of Shamanism in their own community in Siberia is an important addition to the study of the anthropology and sociology of the peoples of Russia. Joanna Dobson's excellent English translation of the Arbachakov's work brings to a wider international audience a fascinating glimpse into the rapidly disappearing traditional world of the Shor Mountain people. That the few and very elderly Shortsi Shamans were willing to share their beliefs and experiences with the Arbachakov's has enabled us all to peer into this mysterious and mystic world. - Frederick Lundahl, retired American Diplomat and specialist on Central Asia and post Soviet Union countries.
This book is a most worthy contribution to our knowledge of Siberian shamanism, illuminating the shamanic traditions of the little-known Shor ethnic group. The documentation is all the more valuable since the research has been done and recorded by native Shor ethnographers so that the observations and language of the shamanic rituals are, without question, authentic and represent a true picture of historical traditions and current cultural adaptations. Particularly important for preservation are the interviews with, and observations of, Shor shamans who were practicing in the post-Soviet period, and the documentation and translation of their kamlanie chants. - Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, Ph.D., author of Sacred Geography: Shamanism Among the Buddhist Peoples of Russia and co-author of Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture.
I welcome the publication of this volume by Shor ethnographers on Shor shamans. Their insider insights are enhanced with shamanic texts and ritual descriptions collected in the nick of time, as knowledgeable elderly Siberian shamans of the magnificent Altai-Sayan mountains have been passing away. -Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Ph.D., Research Professor, Georgetown University, editor of the journal Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia and the book Shamanic Worlds.
To help promote the book please send your tax-deductible donation to Dream Change Inc. Write 'Siberian Book Projects' in the notations margin and mail to address below. Thank you for your help!
Dream Change
P.O. Box 705
Whately, MA 01093
Cover Photo:
Shor Shaman Vasilii Savelevich Ady'yakov (deceased) - by Alexander Arbachakov
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