Narrating the future in Siberia : childhood, adolescence and autobiography among young Eveny
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Narrating the future in Siberia : childhood, adolescence and autobiography among young Eveny
Berghahn Books, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-183) and index
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Description
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 brings a new perspective to the anthropology of childhood and uncovers a quite unexpected dynamic in narrating and foreshadowing the future while relating it to cultural patterns of prediction and fulfillment in nomadic cosmology.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Narrating the future
My own return
The Eveny and the village of Topolinoye
Previous literature on the Eveny and other indigenous communities of Siberia
Summary of the book
Chapter 1. Future autobiographies and their spaces
Research in the field: introducing case studies
Contact for case studies and sampling
Gender and kinship
Age cohorts
Oral and written
Narrative and 'future autobiography'
Chapter 2. Eveny childhood and adolescence
Djuluchen: the composition of child and adolescent personhood
Childhood and narrative
Coming of age
Chapter 3. Forest and village
Forest and village in local cosmologies of movement
The social world of the forest
The village: social context today
Complexities of engagement with antagonistic spaces
Chapter 4. Three future autobiographies
The story of Tonya, a forest girl
The stories of village adolescents: Vera and Grisha
Vera
Grisha
Chapter 5. Reindeer and child in the forest chronotope
Reindeer as a nonhuman component of child personhood
Reindeer as child: Tonya on learning and teaching
The forest chronotope in narrative
Chapter 6. The village as domain of unhappiness: broken families and the curse of the GULAG
Wandering spirits of the dead and the curse of the GULAG
Unhappy families: children's futures and parents' pasts
Chapter 7. Cosmologies of the future in the shadow of djuluchen
Personhood: hero and shaman
Time: cycles with and without destination
'Future autobiography' as an activator of djuluchen
Conclusion
References
Notes
Glossary
Index
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