Trees in Udmurt religion

• Autores: Nadezhda Shutova
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 80, Nº 308, 2006, págs. 318-327
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Prehistorians and early historic archaeologists often puzzle over seemingly random distributions of artefacts remote from settlements. Here is at least one possible explanation. Using ethnographic and archaeological evidence the author reveals how an early historic people of central Russia used trees in their religion, and describes some of the meanings that lay behind their rituals.