Some Problems of the Central Asian and East-European Turkic Shamanism

Mándoky Kongur
Hungarian Scientific Academy

Some Problems of the Central Asian and East-European Turkic Shamanism

35th Annual Meeting of the PIAC, 1992

Some unknown features of the figure and activity of the Central Asian/Kirghiz, Kazak, Özbek, Karakalpak/and East-European/Bashkir, Kazan-, Krim- and Dobrudja-Tatar, Noghay, Kuman/Turkic peoples’ Shamans, examined through their function, historical background, and through the results of former researches in this field.