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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465166503321

Autore

Safonova Tatiana

Titolo

Culture contact in Evenki land [[electronic resource] ] : a cybernetic anthropology of the Baikal Region / / by Tatiana Safonova and István Sántha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Global Oriental, 2013

ISBN

90-04-25423-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Inner Asia book series ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

SánthaIstván <1968->

Disciplina

305.894/1

Soggetti

Evenki (Asian people) - Russia (Federation) - Baikal, Lake, Region

Evenki (Asian people) - Russia (Federation) - Baikal, Lake, Region - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

Baikal, Lake, Region (Russia) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Companionship and pokazukha: flexible and stable elements of Evenki culture -- Pokazukha in public life: the Bugarikta House of Culture -- Manakan and Andaki: gender distinctions and personal autonomy among Evenki -- Evenki people and their dogs: communicating by sharing contexts -- Hunting: ethos and adaptation among Evenki and Buryats -- Perpetual outsiders: local Chinese ethos in Baikal Region -- Evenki land and walking mind -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Evenki are modern hunter-gatherers who live in Central and Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. They are known to scholarship for their animistic worldview, and because the word ‘shaman’ has been borrowed from their language. Despite such recognition contemporary Evenki everyday life rarely appears as a subject for anthropological monographs, mainly because access to Evenki communities for the purpose of extended fieldwork has only recently become possible. In this original study of the Evenki the authors describe a variety of events and situations they observed during fieldwork, and through these experiences document different strategies that Evenki use to retain their ethos as hunter-gatherers even in circumstances when hunting is prohibited. The authors adopt the vocabulary of cybernetics, proposed



by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, in order to underline the circuit logic of events that happen in Evenki land. Culture Contact in Evenki Land , therefore, will be welcomed by social anthropologists in general and specialists of Siberian and Inner Asian studies (Manchu-Tungus peoples) and hunter-gatherer peoples in particular, as well as those interested in the cybernetic approach.