Uno Harva
Uno Nils Oskar Harva was a Finnish religious scholar, who founded the discipline in Finland together with Rafael Karsten. A major figure in North Eurasian ethnology and study of religion, Harva is best known for his body of work on Finno-Ugric and Altaic religions. He is considered to be one of the foremost 20th-century European interpreters of shamanism.Career
Harva conducted fieldwork among the Siberian Ket and Evenk peoples in the 1910s, researching their mythology and religion. He also spent the summers of 1911-1913 with the Finno-Ugric Votyaks in the Urals and the Cheremis on the Volga. He is considered to be an important anthropologist of Siberia.
His study Der Baum des Lebens was the first to show that the world tree from Norse mythology had many parallels in Europe and Asia.
Harva wrote the fourth volume of the book series The Mythology of All Races in 1927. It contains a classic general description of Subarctic shamanism.- Die Wassergottheiten der Finno-Ugrischen Völker
- Permalaisten uskonto
- Tsheremissien uskonto
- Lappalaisten uskonto
- Elämänpuu ; reprinted in German as Der Baum des Lebens
- Jumalauskon alkuperä
- Pohjoisen Euroopan ja Aasian pyyntiriiteistä
- Finno-Ugric, Siberian Mythology
- Altain suvun uskonto
- Die religiösen Vorstellungen der altaischen Völker
- Mordvalaisten muinaisusko
- Sammon ryöstö
- Suomalaisten muinaisusko
