Uno Nils Oskar Harva(known asUno Holmberguntil 1927; 30 August 1882,Ypäjä– 13 August 1949,Turku) was aFinnishreligious scholar,who founded the discipline inFinlandtogether withRafael Karsten.A major figure in NorthEurasianethnologyand study of religion, Harva is best known for his body of work onFinno-UgricandAltaicreligions.[1]He is considered to be one of the foremost 20th-century European interpreters ofshamanism.[2]
Uno Harva | |
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| Born | 30 August 1882 |
| Died | 13 August 1949(aged 66) |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Other names | Uno Holmberg |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Occupation(s) | Theology,Sociology |
Career
editHarva conducted fieldwork among the SiberianKetandEvenkpeoples in the 1910s, researching their mythology and religion. He also spent the summers of 1911–1913 with the Finno-Ugric Votyaks (Udmurts) in the Urals and the Cheremis (theMari people) on the Volga. He is considered to be an importantanthropologistofSiberia.[3][4]
His studyDer Baum des Lebens(The Tree of Life; 1922–23) was the first to show that theworld treefromNorse mythologyhad many parallels in Europe and Asia.[5]
Harva wrote the fourth volume of the book seriesThe Mythology of All Racesin 1927. It contains a classic general description ofSubarcticshamanism.[3]
Principal works
edit- Die Wassergottheiten der Finno-Ugrischen Völker(German: The Water Divinities of the Finno-Ugric Peoples; 1913)
- Permalaisten uskonto(1914)
- Tsheremissien uskonto(Finnish: The Cheremi Religion; 1914)
- Lappalaisten uskonto(Finnish: The Lapp Religion; 1915)
- Elämänpuu(Finnish: The Tree of Life; 1920); reprinted in German asDer Baum des Lebens(1922)
- Jumalauskon alkuperä(1916)
- Pohjoisen Euroopan ja Aasian pyyntiriiteistä(1922)
- Finno-Ugric, Siberian Mythology(1927)
- Altain suvun uskonto(1933)
- Die religiösen Vorstellungen der altaischen Völker(German: Religious Concepts of the Altaic Peoples; 1938)
- Mordvalaisten muinaisusko(1942)
- Sammon ryöstö(1943)
- Suomalaisten muinaisusko(1948)
References
edit- ^Juha Pentikäinen, ed. (1996).Shamanism and Northern Ecology.Walter de Gruyter. p. 32.ISBN9783110811674.
- ^Jeroen W Boekhoven (2011).Genealogies of Shamanism: Struggles for Power, Charisma and Authority.Barkhuis. p. 112.ISBN9789077922927.
- ^abAndrei A. Znamenski, ed. (2004).Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology.Psychology Press. p. 263.ISBN9780415332491.
- ^Mark Nuttall; Terry Callaghan, eds. (2000).Arctic: Environment, People, Policy.CRC Press. p. 418.ISBN9789058230874.
- ^Anders Andrén (2014).Tracing Old Norse Cosmology.Nordic Academic Press. p. 34.ISBN9789185509386.