Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia

ISBN-13: 9781611327809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 358 str.

Peter Jordan

Opis

This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased international collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and northern landscape traditions. Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.

Spis treści

1: Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia: An Introduction; 1: Landscape, Communication and Obligation; 2: Seeing with Others' Eyes: Hunting and ‘Idle Talk' in the Landscape of the Siberian Iukagir; 3: Shamanistic Revival in a Post-Socialist Landscape: Luck and Ritual among Zabaikal'e Orochen-Evenkis; 4: Landscapes in Motion: Opening Pathways in Kamchatkan Hunting and Herding Rituals; 5: Material and Linguistic Perspectives on Sel'kup Sacred Places; 2: Landscape, Dwelling and Practice; 6: Dwelling in the Landscape Among the Reindeer Herding Chukchis of Chukotka; 7: ‘Marking' the Land: Sacrifices, Cemeteries and Sacred Places among the Iamal Nenetses; 8: Landscape Perception and Sacred Places amongst the Vasiugan Khants; 9: Perceptions of Landscape among the Lake Essei Iakut: Narrative, Memory and Knowledge; 10: The Creation and Persistence of Cultural Landscapes among the Siberian Evenkis: Two Conceptions of ‘Sacred' Space; 3: Landscapes in Long-term Transformation; 11: The Mansi Sacred Landscape in Long-Term Historical Perspective; 12: Sacred Places and Masters of Hunting Luck in the Forest Worlds of the Udege People of the Russian Far East; 13: Komi Reindeer Herders: Syncretic and Pragmatic Notions of Being in the Tundra; 14: Siberian Landscapes in Ket Traditional Culture; 15: Sacred Sites, Settlements and Place-Names: Ancient Saami Landscapes in Northern Coastal Sweden

O autorze

Peter Jordan