Olle Sundström
Biographic Data
| ID | 6442002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olle Sundström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olle |
| FAMILY NAME | Sundström |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDSTRÖM O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Response to Sam Gill’s Article ‘What is Mother Earth? A Name, A Meme, A Conspiracy’
The author points out that Gill is clearly focused on disproving the historical existence of widespread ideas of a Mother Earth, and of the name Mother Earth and argues that this does not mean that the proper name Mother Earth is completely missing in ethnographic reports prior to Albrecht Dietrich’s Mutter Erdeand the Romanticists of the nineteenth century. The article explores two examples from ethnographies about the Sami people where terms th…
Siv Ellen Kraft, Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds
Siv Ellen Kraft, Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds (New York: Routledge, 2022), 203 pp., $120 (hbk) ISBN: 9871032019239
I haven’t fully understood – is shamanism religion or not?’
In this essay the Marxist-Leninist understanding of the concept ‘religion’ is analysed in relation to how it was applied to the so-called shamanism of the indigenous peoples of the Soviet North. The point of departure is the correspondence between the head of the Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults in the Soviet Far East and his superior in Moscow. Further, the legal consequences of the somewhat varying Soviet understandings of ‘religion’ …
Is the shaman indeed risen in post-Soviet Siberia
In his exhaustive study of ‘shamanism’ among the Altaic peoples in Southern Siberia, the renowned Soviet ethnographer Leonid P. Potapov contends that ‘under the present conditions there are no remnants or survivals of Shamanism as such left in Altai’. What remains are legends and reminiscences, but these can no longer be told by people with personal experiences of Altaic ‘shamans’ and their rituals. According to Potapov, modern socialist culture …
Struggling for a New Way of Life: A. P. Putintseva, the Red Yurt, and the Nanai
Response to Sam Gill’s Article ‘What is Mother Earth? A Name, A Meme, A Conspiracy’
The author points out that Gill is clearly focused on disproving the historical existence of widespread ideas of a Mother Earth, and of the name Mother Earth and argues that this does not mean that the proper name Mother Earth is completely missing in ethnographic reports prior to Albrecht Dietrich’s Mutter Erdeand the Romanticists of the nineteenth century. The article explores two examples from ethnographies about the Sami people where terms th…
Struggling for a New Way of Life: A. P. Putintseva, the Red Yurt, and the Nanai
Is the shaman indeed risen in post-Soviet Siberia
In his exhaustive study of ‘shamanism’ among the Altaic peoples in Southern Siberia, the renowned Soviet ethnographer Leonid P. Potapov contends that ‘under the present conditions there are no remnants or survivals of Shamanism as such left in Altai’. What remains are legends and reminiscences, but these can no longer be told by people with personal experiences of Altaic ‘shamans’ and their rituals. According to Potapov, modern socialist culture …
I haven’t fully understood – is shamanism religion or not?’
In this essay the Marxist-Leninist understanding of the concept ‘religion’ is analysed in relation to how it was applied to the so-called shamanism of the indigenous peoples of the Soviet North. The point of departure is the correspondence between the head of the Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults in the Soviet Far East and his superior in Moscow. Further, the legal consequences of the somewhat varying Soviet understandings of ‘religion’ …
Siv Ellen Kraft, Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds
Siv Ellen Kraft, Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi: Reclaiming Sacred Grounds (New York: Routledge, 2022), 203 pp., $120 (hbk) ISBN: 9871032019239
Response to Sam Gill’s Article ‘What is Mother Earth? A Name, A Meme, A Conspiracy’
The author points out that Gill is clearly focused on disproving the historical existence of widespread ideas of a Mother Earth, and of the name Mother Earth and argues that this does not mean that the proper name Mother Earth is completely missing in ethnographic reports prior to Albrecht Dietrich’s Mutter Erdeand the Romanticists of the nineteenth century. The article explores two examples from ethnographies about the Sami people where terms th…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religious Studies (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works)