Ethnography of Siberia 3102-LETS
During the course we will discuss some aspects of the “traditional” economies of syberian societies (reindeer herding, hunting and hunting cults). The important part will take the discussion on the symbolic practices connected to kinship systems, guardian spirits, as well as on the so called syberian shamanism – its contextuality and local diversity will be stressed. We shall pay some attention to ethnic and linguistic division of the syberian societies and to current formulations of the indigenous peoples’ rights and new categories of the “ethnic cultures”.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, student can discuss questions concerning ethnicity, ethnography, history and religions in Siberia.
Assessment criteria
written exam - test
Bibliography
Alekseev N. A.
1984 Šamanizm tjurkojazyčnyh narodov Sibiri, Novosibirsk.
Anderson D. G.
2000 Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia: the number one reindeer brigade, Oxford.
Forsyth J.
1994 A History of the Peoples of Siberia, Cambridge.
Habeck J. O.
2005 What it Means to be a Herdsman. The Practice and Image of Reindeer Husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia, Münster.
Halemba A.
2006 The Telengits of Southern Siberia. Landscape, religion and knowledge in motion, London.
Humphrey C.
1983 Karl Marx Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm, Cambridge.
1999 Shamans in the City, „Anthropology Today”, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 3-10.
Kośko M.
1991 Mitologia ludów Syberii, Warszawa.
Narody Sibiri
1956 Narody Sibiri, red. M. Levin, L. Potapov, Moskva.
Nowicka E, Wyszyński R.
1996 Lamowie i sekretarze, Warszawa.
Rethmann P.
2001 Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East, Pennsylvania.
Sieroszewski W.
1961 Dwanaście lat w kraju Jakutów, Kraków.
Shamanism
2003 Shamanism. A Reader, ed. G. Harvey, London & New York.
Smyrski Ł.
2008 Ajdyn znaczy księżyc. Narody południowej Syberii, Warszawa.
Szynkiewicz S.
1984 Herosi tajgi, Warszawa.
Tradicionnoe...
1988-90 Tradicionnoe mirovozzrenie tjurkov južnoj Sibiri, red. E. L’vova, I. Oktjabrskaja, A. Sagalajev, M. Usmanova, t. I-III, Novosibirsk.
Wasilewski J. S.
1979 Podróże do piekieł. Rzecz o szamańskich misteriach, Warszawa.
Wielka Syberia
2000 Wielka Syberia małych narodów, red. E. Nowicka, Kraków.
Vitebsky P.
2005 Reindeer People. Living with animals and spirits in Siberia. London.
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