Distinct Uralic-language literary and sacred traditions, including authored writing, oral texts, historical collections, and translations from Finnish, Estonian, Sámi, Hungarian, Mansi, Udmurt, and other fields.
Folders
Estonian — An Estonian-language literary doorway spanning regilaul and its collectors, epic construction and reception, historical translation witnesses, and authored prose fiction. (40)
Finnish — A Finnish-language literary doorway spanning authored writing, oral and collected song, historical print, fiction, poetry, and edition-aware source texts. (91)
Ethnological Lectures — Matthias Alexander Castrén — Ethnological overview of the Samoyed peoples and five Samoyed fairy tales from the posthumous lectures of Finnish linguist M.A. Castrén (1857), translated from German into English for the first time.
Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Uralic shelf.
Introduction to Uralic Sacred Traditions — A source-critical introduction to the sacred traditions of the Uralic peoples — from the Ob-Ugrian bear cults and Mari paganism to Sami noaidi drums and Hungarian táltos traditions.
Reader's Guide to Uralic — A comparative guide to distinct Uralic-language shelves, separating peoples, languages, genres, collectors, performances, editions, and authored works before tracing family resemblance.
Shamanism in Siberia — M.A. Czaplicka — An excerpt from Aboriginal Siberia (1914) by M.A. Czaplicka, documenting shamanic practices, beliefs, and rituals among the indigenous peoples of Siberia including the Chukchee, Koryak, Yakut, Buryat, and other tribes.