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Consecration ritual for a blacksmith novice among the Yakuts
Journal of American folk-lore • 46 • Published In 1933 • Pages: 257-271
By: Popov, A. A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper describes one ritual from the large unpublished Russian manuscript on religious beliefs and ceremonies of the Yakuts. According to an introductory footnote, all the speeches and incantations in the original manuscript, for which we have no more information, are accompanied by the Yakut text. It has been impossible to determine the amount of field work and the field dates, if there are any, of this work. The article itself gives a very complete and detailed account of the ritual of consecration for a blacksmith novice among the Yakut, and excellent information on the prestige accompanying the position of blacksmith and shaman and the relationship between the two. Accompanying the article in the footnotes and in an introductory bibliographical footnote are references to sources for the study of Yakut tales and lore and of Yakut shamanism.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yakut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- North Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- RCH ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. Popov
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028737
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yakut (Turkic people)