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Religious Ideas of the Ket Samoyeds after Materials of K. Donner // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2007. Issue 4 (67). P. 70-76

The paper is based on the materials of K. Donner – a famous Finnish linguist and ethnographer, who travelled in Siberia in 1911-1913 and in 1914 years. The religious ideas of Selkup people living along the Ket river and its tributaries in the beginning of the 20th century have been studied and the paper presents an adapted translation of the chapter «Die Religion der Ketsamojeden» (The Religion of the Ket Samoyeds) of K. Donner’s book «Bei den Samojeden in Sibirien». The paper describes the ceremony of the sacrifice, the notions of the Selkups about the lower world and spirits living in it, the human soul and life beyond the grave. A special attention is drawn to the personality of shaman, who was a spiritual leader and medicine man for Selkups, and the shaman ceremony

PRINCIPLES OF THE NOMINATION OF THE SELKUP POSTHUMOUS LODGINGS IN CULTURAL CONTEXT // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 7 (97). P. 88-93

This article observes the principles of the nomination of the Selkup posthumous lodgings: the cemetery, the grave and the coffin. Ethnolinguistic analysis reveals the particularities and cultural importance of the Selkup burial tradition.

Keywords: ethnolinguistics, the Selkup language, the cemetery, the grave, the coffin

THE ANALYSIS OF WORD-BUILDING UNIT WITH THE MEANING “DEATH” IN SELKUP // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 7 (97). P. 133-137

In this article the linguistic analysis of the word-building unit “death” in Selkup dialects is performed. The author suggests that the word-building perfectly reflects cultural features of the concept “death.”

Keywords: word-building, concept “death”, Selkup dialects