The work is devoted to the most important ritual sphere of the traditional culture of the northern Mansi, associated with the worship of a bear, that lost a number of essential components in the 20^th century. The ritual folklore of Bear’s Holidays consists almost exclusively of songs, and exactly they were what was forgotten. These are “bear songs”, songs of farewell to a bear at night and its morning awakening, songs of the end of a holiday, and invocation songs for the spirits. The task of the study is to analyse the experience of updating the works of Russian and foreign researchers of Mansi folklore in the process of revival of a Bear’s Holiday. As a result, in this regard the most significant materials of A. Kannisto are identified, which are considered along scientific and practical lines. The first line is implemented in the form of Russian translations of texts with subsequent publication, combined with a version in the modern literary Mansi language. Samples of songs recorded on a phonograph in the form of notes and in a digital version on a disk have also been introduced into academic circulation. The practical line of updating was carried out in 1994-2020 in the form of lectures for the Mansi youth and joint learning of songs and scenes of a Bear’s Holiday according to these sources.

The Tampuans are the indigenous people of Cambodia, living mainly in the northeastern province of Ratanakiri. It was there, to the places of the Tampuan people, that in summer 2015 a group of scientists (specialists from ILS RAS, IL RAS, MAE RAS) made an expedition in order to collect information about the language, culture and life of that people. The cultural aspect was studied in detail by M.V. Stanyukovich (MAE RAS). During the expedition, folklore material and several interviews with natives of the Tampuan people were recorded, including, very extensive interviews with the local shaman Saryan and his daughter, who live in the village of La’en Kraen. Shamanism today continues to play a large role in the daily life and culture of the minorities in Cambodia. In the report, we would like to talk about shamanism through the example of how that traditional form of religion survived among the Tampuan people. In everyday life, the Tampuans communicate with each other using their native language, but at the same time they also speak the state language of Cambodia - Khmer. M.V. Stanyukovich does not speak Khmer, so she worked with the help of Khmer translator Saat So. Until last year, the interviews were not transcribed and analyzed. After a long work on transcribing two interviews, we managed to ascertain that the shamanism of the indigenous people of Cambodia Tampuan is a combination of the following elements: initiation into shamans, performing rituals of sacrifice, treatment of sick people.