Поездка на Окинаву: опыт использования результатов научного туризма в образовательном процессе

Abstract

The author of this article has been researching Shamanism of Siberian people over 20 years, and has been teaching religious studies in the higher education system for the last 5 years. When she had a chance to visit Okinawa as the researcher in 2010, the Japanese colleagues advised her to make the individual research project. Its purpose was comparison of Siberian Shamanism with Okinawan one, detection of similarities and distinctions between them. In order to realize it the author chose the Tuvan variant of Siberian Shamanism as an object of comparison that is familiar to her not only as the researcher, but also as this culture-bearer. The trip to Okinawa can be carried to a scientif c tourism since during travel the author actively observed, carried out research works, interviewed local people and regularly kept diary. The target of trip was collecting of f eld work data that was processed, comprehended and used subsequently by the author in the scientif c and educational purposes. The author’s article shares her own experience, which has two posing — a research tourist and a lecturer of religious studiy.The similarities and distinctions between Tuvan and Okinawa Shamanism are studied. The basic attention is given to a social role of the shaman in the Tuvan and the Okinawan societies, display of «shaman illness», ceremonial practice, persecutions on shamans in Tuva and on Okinawa in dif erent periods.This material provide the basis for the author`s course on comparative religious study.