The article reveals the ethnographic research data of an officer, orientalist and Russian emigrant P.V. Shkurkin on the history, culture, religion, everyday life, economic activity, appearance and other features of foreign tribes living on the territory of southwestern China. The material is based on an archival source – an article “Lolo (Old and New about the Foreigners of Southwestern China)” written by P.V. Shkurkin and published in the journal “Vestnik Asii” (“Bulletin of Asia”) in Harbin in 1913 (no. 17–18). The author of the current article provides extensive extracts from Shkurkin’s work, covering religious and cult features of the culture of Lolo (historical name) – peoples of East and Southeast Asia, currently living in China in the provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as well as in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos. The author structures the extracts on the relevant topics providing with necessary comments and additions.
Keywords: Russian emigration, ethnography, China, Lolo, Yizu, foreign peoples, religion, cult
DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2020.4.83-94
About the author
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Eugenia A. Kontaleva – senior teacher at the Department of Religious Studies and History of the Amur State University, |