The Khanty Living World

One could compare the features of the culture of the Khianty and other nationalities without end, searching for what they have in common and what is unique to them, for the archaic and the new. Indeed, the culture developed over millennia in interaction with various communities, but each time it was given life through the life of the individual. A Khanty person was not concerned with seeking Samoyedic, Turkic, Evenk, and other sources of his conceptions or skills; for him, culture was not a"problem" but a means of living-understandable, accessible, and convenient. Let us too attempt to approach the culture of the Khanty not as an impediment that must be"analytically" overcome, but as an opportunity to see the world through Khanty eyes. For validity, let us at first follow the footsteps of Vasilii Russkin, the only shaman still surviving on the Trom-Agan River, into his koot

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