Zapiski “ushedsheĭ v sebi͡a ulitki”: Zabaĭkal'skie ėkspedit͡sii S.M. Shirokogorova i formirovanie osnov “ėtnos-myshlenii͡a”

Translated title of the contribution: Notes of a "retired snail": Transbaikal expeditions Shirokogorova and the formation of the foundations of "ethnos-thinking"

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Abstract

This article surveys the fieldwork of Sergei Shirokogoroff and his wife Elizabeta in northeastern Zabaikal’e in 1912 and 1913 to document the people whom he identified as Orochens. According to his own reflections, Sergei Shirokogoroff felt his ideas on etnos and his acquaintance with Tungus shamanism, occurred at this time. Through surveying manuscripts and letters written from the field, or shortly after, the article weights the atmosphere of competition and introspection that may have lead him and his wife to seek out ever more isolated peripheries from which to theorize. Nevertheless, this first encounter with Orochen hunters and shamans would form the kernel of his theory of cultural resilience and degradation which would be a constant theme in his life’s work.
Translated title of the contributionNotes of a "retired snail": Transbaikal expeditions Shirokogorova and the formation of the foundations of "ethnos-thinking"
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)104-122
Number of pages19
JournalEtnograficheskoe Obozrenie
Volume5
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2017

Keywords

  • Ethnos
  • history of ethnography
  • Transbaikal
  • Evenkis
  • Orochens

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