Narrating the Future in Siberia
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Narrating the Future in Siberia

Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Narrating the Future in Siberia

Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. List of Characters*
  4. Introduction - Narrating the future
  5. Chapter 1 - Future Autobiographies and Their Spaces
  6. Chapter 2 - Eveny Childhood and Adolescence
  7. Chapter 3 - Forest and Village
  8. Chapter 4 - Three Future Autobiographies
  9. Chapter 5 - Reindeer and Child in the Forest Chronotope
  10. Chapter 6 - The Village as Domain of Unhappiness: Broken Families and the Curse of the GULAG
  11. Chapter 7 - Cosmologies of the Future in the Shadow of Djuluchen
  12. References
  13. Index