Dancing in the House of Koryak Culture

King, Alexander D.

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“…The camp educators in Saranpaul' try to bridge the gap of social care for children and youth in need, not only in the summer time, but also during the school year. In Saranpaul', as in many other places in Russia (King 2009: 153 ff. ), indigenous activists are worried about the disorientation of the young generation as to their sense of belonging, low level of confidence, and education.…”

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Habeck¹

2019

Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North

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Joachim Otto Habeck teaches Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. From 2003 to 2013 he was Coordinator of the Siberian Studies Centre of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 2004. He is author of What It Means to Be a Herdsman: the practice and image of reindeer husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia (2005) and Das Kulturhaus in Russland (2014). With Brian Donahoe, he co-edited Reconstructing the House of Culture (2011). His sphere of interest comprises popular culture, practices of distinction, and the concept of lifestyle in postsocialist countries.

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Section: Shared Sensibilities: Taking Charge Of Local Youthmentioning

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2019

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“…Such aspects have received due attention in Russia and abroad (a good account of the contemporary role of the House of Culture for the development of indigenous cultures is provided in King, 2009). The potential role of such institutions to invoke certain images in the popular imagination like portraits approximating the ''noble savage'', the ''child of nature'', the ''vanishing tribe'', and the ''younger brother'' or their diverse amalgamations has remained less noticeable in the shadow of the more ideologically and politically nuanced writings on the Lovozero Sami.…”

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“We are Reindeer People, We Come from Reindeer.” Reindeer Herding in Representations of the Sami in Russia

Vladimirova¹

2011

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Reindeer herding, a tourism emblem of the European North, is also part of a longlasting tradition of objectification of Sami culture in Russia. Sustained in the popular imagination by Russian ethnography, the dominant order's agent for legitimization of Soviet ethnic policies, in the 1990s the tradition of exoticization and ''othering'' was strengthened by Western anthropological and political engagement with the indigenous debate in Russia, transposing on the Sami the imagery and ideals of the global indigenous movement. Business aspirations to utilize the persistent imagery of exotic otherness gave birth to ethnographic tourism in the Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia, which markets indigenous culture as an attraction. In this paper, I analyze how these diverse discourses equally reify and exploit the concept of Sami reindeer herding and the effects that such representational economy has on the community.

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Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North

Habeck¹

2019

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Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Showcasing the collective work of ten experienced scholars in the field, the book goes beyond concepts of tradition that have often been the focus of previous research, to explain how political, economic and technological changes in Russia have created a wide range of new possibilities and constraints in the pursuit of different ways of life. Each contribution is drawn from meticulous first-hand field research, and the authors engage with theoretical questions such as whether and how the concept of lifestyle can be extended beyond its conventionally urban, Euro-American context and employed in a markedly different setting. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North builds on the contributors’ clear commitment to diversifying the field and providing a novel and intimate insight into this vast and dynamic region. This book provides inspiring reading for students and teachers of Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies and for anyone interested in Russia and its regions. By providing ethnographic case studies, it is also a useful basis for teaching anthropological methods and concepts, both at graduate and undergraduate level. Rigorous and innovative, it marks an important contribution to the study of Siberia and the Russian North.

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Dancing in the House of Koryak Culture

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“We are Reindeer People, We Come from Reindeer.” Reindeer Herding in Representations of the Sami in Russia

Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North

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