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Narrating the Future in Siberia

Autor Olga Ulturgasheva
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2012
The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous peoples, it presents the young people's narratives about their own future and shows how they form constructs of time, space, agency and personhood through the process of growing up and experiencing their social world. The study brings a new perspective to the anthropology of childhood and uncovers a quite unexpected dynamic in narrating and foreshadowing the future while relating it to cultural patterns of prediction and fulfillment in nomadic cosmology. Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork for a decade in Siberia on childhood, youth, religion, reindeer herding and hunting and coedited Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780857457660
ISBN-10: 0857457667
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC

Notă biografică

Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork for a decade in Siberia on childhood, youth, religion, reindeer herding and hunting. She is a co-editor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction * Narrating the future * My own return * The Eveny and the village of Topolinoye * Previous literature on the Eveny and other indigenous communities of Siberia * Summary of the book Chapter 1. Future autobiographies and their spaces * Research in the field: introducing case studies * Contact for case studies and sampling * Gender and kinship * Age cohorts * Oral and written * Narrative and 'future autobiography' Chapter 2. Eveny childhood and adolescence * Djuluchen: the composition of child and adolescent personhood * Childhood and narrative * Coming of age Chapter 3. Forest and village * Forest and village in local cosmologies of movement * The social world of the forest * The village: social context today * Complexities of engagement with antagonistic spaces Chapter 4. Three future autobiographies * The story of Tonya, a forest girl * The stories of village adolescents: Vera and Grisha * Vera * Grisha Chapter 5. Reindeer and child in the forest chronotope * Reindeer as a nonhuman component of child personhood * Reindeer as child: Tonya on learning and teaching * The forest chronotope in narrative Chapter 6. The village as domain of unhappiness: broken families and the curse of the GULAG * Wandering spirits of the dead and the curse of the GULAG * Unhappy families: children's futures and parents' pasts Chapter 7. Cosmologies of the future in the shadow of djuluchen * Personhood: hero and shaman * Time: cycles with and without destination * 'Future autobiography' as an activator of djuluchen Conclusion References Notes Glossary Index

Recenzii

" - an original and thought-provoking study [that is]firmly situated in the relevant Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet ethnographic and historical literature - It also makes excellent use of the extensive Russian ethnographic work in this region." * Julie Cruikshank, University of British Columbia " - a very good study, compellingly and confidently written, which covered a relatively unknown subject - The ethnography of this book is excellent." * Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK