In the first half of the 1970s, in the predominantly Eskimo coastal village of Novoye Chaplino (Chukotka), a shaman named Ag'lyu, about whom his contemporaries have preserved many memories, died. Ag'lyu is, on the one hand, a hero of a modern myth, and on the other hand, a hero of the relatively recent Soviet past. He is a respected shaman, the embodiment of tradition and the miraculous gift inherent in individual Eskimos, and at the same time a magician, a cheat, a deceiver who loved to drink and always needed money to cure his hangover. The memories of underground shamanic rituals of the post-war period and the anecdotal miracles performed by Ag'lyu, collected by Dmitry in the winter of 2020, are considered in the context of contemporary reflection on the "old life" and post-Soviet nostalgia for the sense of community and ritual saturation that took place during that period. Why was Aglyu called "the most powerful shaman," while later living knowledgeable Eskimos were not called shamans? What do memorials about shamans tell us about ritual dynamics in coastal Chukotka? Can we write about the disappearance of shamanism among the Asian Eskimos or is the burial of this tradition premature? Lecturer: Dmitry Oparin, graduate of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, PhD in History, senior lecturer at the Department of Ethnology of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, research fellow at the Institute of Social Policy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, curator of the research project, senior research fellow at the M.A. Bulgakov Museum, author of the book "Stories of Moscow Houses Told by Their Residents." 0:00 N.A. Lomonosov Library Nekrasova presents the lecture series "Anthropology of Religion" 00:15 - Introduction 2:25 - Quotes from an interview with a local resident of Chukotka 4:30 - Forms of healing 5:20 - About Chukotka 9:30 - Ritual culture of Chukotka. The meaning of dreams, memories of relatives. 5:05 - About names, Russification 27:00 - Ritual space 29:25 - Shamanism. 32:50 - About the last shaman. 35:30 - Annoyance about the loss of ritual. 37:15 - Memories of Ag'lyu 41:05 - The peculiarity of Ag'lyu, the Soviet era. 44:55 - Everyday life, attitude towards Ag'lyu. 51:20 - Why is Ag'lyu the last shaman? 54:00 - How do people live in Chukotka? About Abramovich 58:15 - Kinship system. Our website: http://nekrasovka.ru/ VK: http://vk.com/nekrasovkalibrary Telegram: https://t.me/nekrasovkalibrary Subscribe to the channel: / @nekrasovkalibrary