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The Mansi (historical name "Voguls" proper name Mansi , Russian Манси , indekl.) Are a north-east of the Urals -based Finno-Ugric people. Many of the more than 12,000 people traditionally hunt and fish . Reindeer herding is not very common anymore. The Mansi language is one of the most threatened idioms of Siberia , some of its dialects have already expired.
Together with the Ugric-speaking Khanty people, the Mansi live in the autonomous district of the Khanty and Mansi in the historical region of Jugoria , although their traditional ways of life have already been strongly pushed back by the rapid industrialization of these areas. The Mansi are politically organized together with other indigenous peoples in the region in the Association for the Rescue of Ugra, based in Khanty-Mansiysk .
The Mansi belong to the numerically small indigenous peoples of the north, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation , who are represented by the RAIPON association.
Population numbers
| total | Men | Women | |
|---|---|---|---|
| total | 12269 | 5590 | 6679 |
| Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi | 10977 | 5027 | 5950 |
| Tyumen Oblast | 471 | 192 | 279 |
| Sverdlovsk Oblast | 251 | 127 | 124 |
| Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug | 166 | 64 | 102 |
| Republic of Komi | 8th | 4th | 4th |
religion
The so-called "classical shamanism" was the ethnic religion of the Mansi. The ethnologist Klaus E. Müller speaks of "complex shamanism" and means those forms that have developed a complex ritual culture through contact with other religions and neighboring agricultural societies. There were various spiritual specialists among the Mansi who used shaman drums , other musical instruments or poison mushrooms for their rituals .
Although the Mansi were formally converted to Christianity in the 18th century, shamanism remained their traditional religion. Christianization only took place superficially among many remote peoples of Siberia, so that syncretistic mixed religions are common today. In the Mansi there are at least pre-Christian elements in the Orthodox faith.
Personalities
A comparatively well-known representative of the Mansi was the writer Juwan Schestalow, who died on November 5, 2011 . Until perestroika , Shestalov (like the much better known Chukchi Yuri Rytchëu ) was one of the Soviet-loyal representatives of the "national literatures" of the indigenous peoples of the north, which had been created since the 1920s to demonstrate the enlightening and progressive effect of the Soviet Union. With the collapse of communism he took a sharp turn towards shamanism and advocated the thesis that the Mansi were descendants of the ancient Sumerians , a belief that nobody shared with him.
Web links
- The Khanty and Mansi report of the radio station "Voice of Russia"
Individual evidence
- ↑ 19. РАЗМЕЩЕНИЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ КОРЕННЫХ МАЛОЧИСЛЕННЫХ НАРОДОВ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ. gks.ru, accessed January 5, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Klaus E. Müller: Shamanism. Healers, spirits, rituals. 4th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2010 (original edition 1997), ISBN 978-3-406-41872-3 . Pp. 30-33, 41.
- ↑ The Khanty and Mansi. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio Voice of Russia contribution from September 21, 2010.
- ↑ The small peoples of the far north and far east of Russia. Society for Threatened Peoples - South Tyrol, Bozen 1998.
- ↑ Hartmut Motz: Languages and Peoples of the Earth - Linguistic-Ethnographic Lexicon. 1st edition, Volume 2, Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86634-368-9 . P. 227.
