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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779366003321

Autore

Ulturgasheva Olga

Titolo

Narrating the future in Siberia [[electronic resource] ] : childhood, adolescence and autobiography among young Eveny / / Olga Ulturgasheva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-283-86648-X

0-85745-767-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

305.23089941

305.89/41

Soggetti

Even (Asian people) - Attitudes

Even (Asian people) - Social conditions

Children - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - Attitudes

Children - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - Forecasting

Children - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - Social conditions

Families - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Social perception - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Characters*; Introduction - Narrating the future; Chapter 1 - Future Autobiographies and Their Spaces; Chapter 2 - Eveny Childhood and Adolescence; Chapter 3 - Forest and Village; Chapter 4 - Three Future Autobiographies; Chapter 5 - Reindeer and Child in the Forest Chronotope; Chapter 6 - The Village as Domain of Unhappiness: Broken Families and the Curse of the GULAG; Chapter 7 - Cosmologies of the Future in the Shadow of Djuluchen; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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