Landscape Perception and Sacred Places amongst the Vasiugan Khanty
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Date
2011
Authors
Filchenko (Фильченко), Andrey (Андрей)
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Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia
Abstract
This local case study illustrates the ways in which local upper Vasiugan community construct, inhabit and structure their local cultural landscape with regard to general ecology, belief, kinship, delimited into a variety of domains: sacred/spiritual vs. routine economic; restricted vs. unrestricted. The territory of upper Vasiugan known as Tukh-Emter Lake is known to all on the river as populated by particular clans and as their economic territory.
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sacred places, Vasiugan Khants, ecology, settlement, kinship