FROM SHAMANISM TO SHAMANISM IN RUSSIAN ALTAI

Organized by François Pannier, Adrien Viel

By Clément Jacquemond (ATER-EPHE)

From shamanism to shamanisms?

Perspectives on religious dynamics in Russian Altai

This presentation offers an overview of religious practices in the Russian Altai.This region of southern Siberia, best known for the shamanism of its natives, is also historically a crossroads of cultural exchanges and the meeting point of numerous religious currents, which has earned it the nickname "Palestine of Asia".How have the systems of representations and practices present interacted over time?How did these interactions shape pre- and post-Soviet indigenous religion?The intervention will return to the different historical processes of Altaian religion and will question its contemporary socio-political dimensions.