Virlana Tkacz

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Virlana Tkacz, the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, is director of the Yara Arts Group in New York. Since 1996 she has worked with Buryat artists to create theater pieces based on Buryat stories, poetry, and songs.

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Books by Virlana Tkacz

Siberian Shamanism

The Shanar Ritual of the Buryats

By Virlana Tkacz

Foreword by Itzhak Beery / Photographs by Alexander Khantaev / With Sayan Zhambalov

An intimate account of an ancient shamanic ritual of Siberia

• Illustrated with vivid, full-color photographs throughout

• Details the many preparations and ritual objects as well as the struggles of the shamans to complete the ceremony successfully

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