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MIND TURNED TO THE PRESENT: VLADIMIR N. BASILOV AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL SCIENCE // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2014. Issue 1 (3). P. 119-139

The article contains the review of V. N. Basilov’s scientific activities and complete bibliography of his works. V. N. Basilov was one of outstanding Russian ethnographers. He made an enormous contribution to religious studies, especially to early forms including shamanism studies. His works (“Shamanism among the peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan”, Moscow, 1992; “Chosen by Spirits”, Moscow, 1984; “Cult of Saints in Islam”, Moscow, 1970; “What is shamanism? ” EO, 1997, № 5, etc.) have become classical. He also worked in other academic subjects, as the organizer and promoter of new areas of research. For almost all his life he was connected with the IEA. For a couple of years V. N. Basilov was a member of editorial boards of Etnologitcheskoje Obozrenie (EO) and Annual Field studies of IEA, in 1971–1978 he was the Academic Secretary and since 1987 up to 1998 – the Head of the IEA Central Asia and Kazakhstan Reseach Center. Besides he was one of those who had organized the exhibition “On the Silk Road, nomadic peoples of Eurasia” (1981–1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 – in Japan, Finland, Sweden and the United States of America); participated in the voyage on board of “Dmitri Mendeleev” to the Papua New Guinea and then published seven articles and essays based on collected matherials. He published over 30 articles in special editions (encyclopedias and handbooks on history, social and culture anthropology еtс.) and those appeared in on a wide range of readers. The range of scientific interests of V. N. Basilov cover traditional cultures of Central Asia and the Caucasus, nomadic culture, problems of ethnogenesis and ethnic processes, history and development of dwelling, place and prospects of social and cultural anthropology in modern society. Based on a large body of field data and on profound knowledge of sources and literature his works still have great theoretical and methodological significance.

THE WORKS OF VLADIMIR NIKOLAEVICH BASILOV // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2014. Issue 1 (3). P. 140-145