The Shaman (trailer)

Rare documentary of the shaman rite, North Siberian Nganasan tribe. Full length DVD (26 min.) for $20 - order here (contact me).

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• rite
• ritual
• shamanic
• Nganasan
• Siberian
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• spiritual

[whateva1983]

more like a biasentary... what's up with the horror music? there should be respect and opening towards the rich and very human shamanic religious tradiyion. this doesn't reflect that. those who made this documentary spit in the name of the great anthrpologists like Malinowski....

[BPmmxFX]

It's a Russian production - nothing I could do about... The music is not horror - just dramatic, trying to emphesize the particular (dramatic) moment. I don't think it diminishes the shamanic tradition, which BTW is as far from religious as from human (it's closer to animal spirit than to human...)

What is "biasentary" anyway..?

[mohamedsucksdick]

That dude gets out of his tree!

[BPmmxFX]

At least he's out of it...

Using something like Mohamed Sucks Dick for a name just proves how far deep in a jungle you still are, dude...

[Avainparasite]

and yet another episode of zoo-anthropology: take the camera and film everything, underlie it with music and create an image of savagery.

this is without respect for indigenous cultures.

[BPmmxFX]

Beauty (as well as savagery) is in the eyes of a beholder...

I don't see any zoo-anthropology or disrespect; instead, I see a video recording of the last shaman of this particular tribe (Nganasan, Siberia), performing one of the rites...

Since shamans often depict animals in their rites - hence the connection, which you pejoratively described as "zoo-anthropology"(?)

[Ochsenburg]

absolutely sick to add a kind (horror) music to a shaman - dance - these filmmakers disqualify themselves

[uphamtimothy]

"Doroba" -- "Greetings" in Nganasan. It is a critically endangered language in Siberia. Indigenous people of Siberia are losing their language to Russian. The reason why is because of the history of boarding schools, and when they go to trade and buy, all of it is done in Russian. Their can kept their language alive through shamanistic songs, but it must go further. Such as schools with language immersion programs, and purchasing in their own language.

[ustalo]

Это не русские, но нганасаны

[2008PVB]

It's nice to find here our Russian Siberian shamans :-)

[DritonGusia]

@BPmmxFX I don't know is it horror or dramatic but it just does not reflect the shamanic experience, it really sounds disrespectful for such music is more correlated to negative phenomenons in television as far as I can say

[DritonGusia]

@whateva1983 thats exactly what bothered me, I totally agree

[naaaaaagz]

absolutely amazing video. pity for the music mashup, apparently the film was made in the 70s/80s, when lots of documentaries were spiced up with out-of-subject soundtracks (can-can for driving videos, krautrock for scientific showreels and now this..)

[gregoryburrows]

agree TOTALLY -- thumbs down for that from me also. Talk about not getting it, not perceiving, not feeling spirit of what's going on there. That music was ruination of a profound moment.

[LiveLoveBurnDeath]

Nenets and Inuit: singular xongyeqngad'm / siniktumni (siniktunga) "Im sleep" xongyeqngan / siniktutin ' you sleep' xongyeqnga / sininga (siniktuq) 'he/she sleep' (dual) xongyeqngangix / siniktuguk 'we two sleep xongyeqngadyix / siniktutik 'you two sleep xongyeqngax"x / siningak (siniktuk) 'they two sleep' (plural) xongyeqngawaq / siniktugut 'we are sleep xongyeqngadaq / siniktusi 'you all sleep xongyeqngaq / siningat (siniktut) 'they all sleep'

[LiveLoveBurnDeath]

Eskimo-Aleut and Samoyedic has dual. singular/dual/plural Samoyedic/Sirenik/Inuit mengi / menga / uvanga 'me' mengix / no dual / uvaguk 'we (dual) mengaq / mengkut / uvagut 'we (plural) xalya / iqaluk 'fish' xalyana / iqalungni 'on/at/in a/the fish' xalyak / iqaluup 'to/of the fish' xalyamna / iqalupkut 'along, throught fish' xalyanyad / iqalungmut 'from the fish'

[LiveLoveBurnDeath]

Im Inuk

I ve seen all Samoyedic and Chukchee and Itelmen are very similar to Eskimo-Aleut However i dont see Inuit similar Hungarian's language...it was quite different

And you see the word "Shaman" :

nge" - Nganasan

tadewya (tadebya) - Nenets (similar Proto-Eskimo's word "taru/tadu" for "human being" in Shaman's word

angatkuq/angakkuq (Inuit)

angalkuq (Yupik)

angangel'e-n (engengel'e-n) (Chukchee)

anansa'kaz (Itelmen)