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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Safonova, Tatiana.

Contributor:

Sántha, István, 1968-

Series:

Inner Asia book series ; no. 7.

Inner Asia book series ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Evenki (Asian people).

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

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

Baikal, Lake, Region (Russia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Global Oriental, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-04-25423-4

OCLC:

847130855

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004254237 DOI