KAMALA / HOME
Siberia & Inner Asia / Tuva, southern Siberia
Tuvan traditions.
Sound, ritual specialists and a specific local repertoire.
PEOPLE & CONTEXT
A place, a name,
a living history.
Field research in Tuva examines the organization of sound and music within shamanic practice. The pathway follows that research without treating all Tuvan throat singing as a ritual or all ritual sound as the same phenomenon.
A WAY TO STUDY
Begin with the source.
Identify the performer, occasion and source of a publicly available recording. Describe audible features first and attribute explanations of their ritual role to the practitioner or researcher.