“When I Was a Little Pike”: Ichthyofauna in Folklore and the Fishing Magic among the Athabaskan of the Arctic Drainage Area
[“Kogda ya byl malen’kim shchurionkom”: ikhtiofauna v fol’klore i rybatskaia magiia atapaskov Arkticheskogo basseina]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 12.12.2017
Accepted: 18.05.2018
About author(s)
Nikita Shishelov | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9849-8112 | nshishelov@rambler.ru | independent researcher | (Moscow, Russia)
Keywords
Athabaskan, native fishery, fishery magic
Abstract
The article examines the customs and taboos related to fish and fishing among the Athabaskan of the Arctic drainage area. It further discusses the question about the place that fish occupies in the traditional spiritual culture of the people. The research is drawn on an array of ethno-graphic data spanning the period from the eighteenth through the twenty first century.
Citation
Shishelov, N.S. 2018. “Kogda ya byl malen’kim shchurionkom”: ikhtiofauna v fol’klore i rybatskaia magiia atapaskov Arkticheskogo basseina [“When I Was a Little Pike”: Ichthyofauna in Folklore and the Fishing Magic among the Athabaskan of the Arctic Drainage Area]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 4: 13-25. https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954150000196-5
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