The idea behind the selection of articles presented in this issue came in the summer of 2003, nea... more The idea behind the selection of articles presented in this issue came in the summer of 2003, nearly a year before the official celebration in the Altai Republic of the 100th anniversary of Burkhanism, a new religion that emerged, or became particularly active, at the beginning of the twentieth century. During the International Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference “The Sacral in Traditional Culture” (see Materialy 2004; Kharitonova et al. 2004), on the day of a roundtable on problems of religiousness, a middle-aged man—one of the leaders of the contemporary neoreligious movements in Altai—approached me and said, “Do you remember that Danilin wrote about my grandfather, a yarlykchi [white-faith priest] in his book on Burkhanism?” This person had made a special trip to a remote tourist camp in Ust-Koksa District to find out what the scholars interested in the religious situation in Altai were discussing and how they were presenting Altai shamanism and Burkhanism to the world. Judging from the heated, at times even rowdy debates that flared up at the conference, the re-
In the article, based on previously unknown archival materials of the outstanding Siberian schola... more In the article, based on previously unknown archival materials of the outstanding Siberian scholar Andreĭ Anokhin of the early twentieth century and the author’s own field materials gathered in the late twentieth century, for the first time, the most detailed picture of shamanic ideas about the spirits of evil among the Teleuts, one of the small Turkic groups in southwestern Siberia, is presented. The article is accompanied by unique archival drawings, including those based on information received directly from shamans and their assistants.
corpora.iea.ras.ru) is a collection of folklore texts in lesser used, mostly endangered, Siberian... more corpora.iea.ras.ru) is a collection of folklore texts in lesser used, mostly endangered, Siberian languages and was initiated in 2011 through support from the Department of Northern and Siberian Studies at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of
На основе анализа собственных полевых записей предложено решение проблемы адекватной расшифровки ... more На основе анализа собственных полевых записей предложено решение проблемы адекватной расшифровки звучащих тирад эпических сказаний шорцев и хакасов – тюркских народов Южной Сибири. Эксперимент с исполнением эпоса а капелла (без горлового пения и без музыкального сопровождения), проведенный автором с помощью шорского сказителя Владимира Таннагашева (1932–2007), позволил доказать, что все поющиеся сказителем стихи являются не неким набором усеченных и искаженных слов, как об этом писали даже индигенные исследователи, а осмысленным и потому вполне доступным для расшифровки поэтическим текстом.
Публикация сопровождается QR-кодами, позвоялющими услышать уникальные записи шорского эпоса.
When and how do we recognize the meaning of epic poetry? Turkic peoples of South Siberia, the Sho... more When and how do we recognize the meaning of epic poetry? Turkic peoples of South Siberia, the Shor and the Khakas, are famous for their recitations and song of classic epic tales, but even indigenous researchers are divided on the meaning of the sung portions. This essay takes seriously these sung portions of epic performances to argue that they constitute meaningful poetic texts in their own right. Examples draw on years of field study in South Siberia, and well as an experiment conducted by the author with the help of the Shor storyteller Vladimir Tannagashev (1932-2007), in which epics were performed a cappella, that is, without throat-singing or musical accompaniment.
The entry presents the main stages in the development of anthropology in Siberia. Major research ... more The entry presents the main stages in the development of anthropology in Siberia. Major research areas, schools, and names as well as trends in scholarly thought are presented starting from the early period of knowledge accumulation in the XVIII century onwards. Anthropology in Siberia is shown to be an essentially international area of scientific inquiry.
The article discusses research on social costs of the Russian model of coal extractivism. Through... more The article discusses research on social costs of the Russian model of coal extractivism. Through the case of one of the most notorious and acute conflicts between indigenous population – the Shors – and coal mining companies operating in the Kemerovo region (Russia), it describes key conflict discourses, explores practices of coping with the conflict as well as the implications thereof, and identifies the potential for indigenous communities’ postconflict recovery. The article draws on the authors’ multi-year observation of conflicts unfolding in the regions of extensive coal mining. In Russian social anthropology scholarship, conflicts over resources on the land of indigenous peoples have not been much elaborated on in terms of experiencing trauma, overcoming it, and undergoing post-conflict recovery; the case study presented in the article partly fills this gap.
The proposed course traces key developments in anthropological research on phenomena of the “reso... more The proposed course traces key developments in anthropological research on phenomena of the “resource curse” in post-soviet Siberia. After discussing some fundamental terminology used in the course and overviewing official documents drawn on in social impact assessment practices, as well as following a brief discussion of the history of resource extraction in territories inhabited by the indigenous peoples of Siberia and social and cultural consequences of industrial development in the region, the author goes through various case studies of so-called “ethnological impact assessment” (in Russian: etnologicheskaya ekspertiza) conducted in Siberia, taking note of some major problems of interaction between the state, business companies and indigenous peoples, and analysing underlying theoretical approaches in each of the cases.
Начиная с 2015 года на базе кафедры этнологии исторического факультета МГУ при участии коллег из ... more Начиная с 2015 года на базе кафедры этнологии исторического факультета МГУ при участии коллег из университетов г. Кемерово (Россия) и Хельсинки (Финляндия) (с 2016 года — Оксфорд, Великобритания) осуществляется крупный научно-исследовательский проект «“Ресурсное проклятие” на циркумполярных территориях: российский и международный опыт анализа и урегулирования конфликтов из-за невозобновляемых ресурсов в местах традиционного проживания аборигенных этнических групп», финансируемый Российским научным фондом (грант № 15-18-00112). В данной обзорной статье научного руководителя проекта представлены предварительные итоги его реализации в 2015—2016 гг. Общие итоги реализации проекта планируются в виде коллективной работы участников.
The article describes unique techniques used for braiding rawhide belts by Turkic peoples of sout... more The article describes unique techniques used for braiding rawhide belts by Turkic peoples of southern Western Siberia, the secrets of which have been considered to be lost (and therefore this technique has practically become a “sacred academic metaphor” for things that cannot be deciphered). The author demonstrates that the spiral and longitudinal cutting of belt has not always been predetermined by ethnocultural peculiarities, as existing literature shows, but, rather, both types could co-exist in the culture of the same people, due to functional reasons. The author also shows that whip (kamcha) braiding technique could be used to produce items with either subsquare or subrectangular cuts, whereas those with other shapes of cuts – oval, round, polyhedral – were produced with the help of other techniques. Special attention is paid to braiding techniques reconstruction and description. The types of belt braiding out of two (whip braiding), four, and larger even number of belt groups are illustrated in detail. Unsupported braiding out of two groups of belts was based on intertexture of the “working belt” with belts from another group with its following return to the original group. This principle was underlying the production of whips. In unsupported braiding with four or larger number of groups of belts this principle lied in the basis of each second (even) move of braiding. As for uneven move of braiding, it can be described as intertexture with restacking of “the working belt” from one group to another. The author proves that multi-row braiding was based on the application of these two principles and suggests various ways of describing/recording of craftsmen activities. The article also touches upon the issue of perspective industrial application of this braiding technique.
The idea behind the selection of articles presented in this issue came in the summer of 2003, nea... more The idea behind the selection of articles presented in this issue came in the summer of 2003, nearly a year before the official celebration in the Altai Republic of the 100th anniversary of Burkhanism, a new religion that emerged, or became particularly active, at the beginning of the twentieth century. During the International Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference “The Sacral in Traditional Culture” (see Materialy 2004; Kharitonova et al. 2004), on the day of a roundtable on problems of religiousness, a middle-aged man—one of the leaders of the contemporary neoreligious movements in Altai—approached me and said, “Do you remember that Danilin wrote about my grandfather, a yarlykchi [white-faith priest] in his book on Burkhanism?” This person had made a special trip to a remote tourist camp in Ust-Koksa District to find out what the scholars interested in the religious situation in Altai were discussing and how they were presenting Altai shamanism and Burkhanism to the world. Judging from the heated, at times even rowdy debates that flared up at the conference, the re-
In the article, based on previously unknown archival materials of the outstanding Siberian schola... more In the article, based on previously unknown archival materials of the outstanding Siberian scholar Andreĭ Anokhin of the early twentieth century and the author’s own field materials gathered in the late twentieth century, for the first time, the most detailed picture of shamanic ideas about the spirits of evil among the Teleuts, one of the small Turkic groups in southwestern Siberia, is presented. The article is accompanied by unique archival drawings, including those based on information received directly from shamans and their assistants.
corpora.iea.ras.ru) is a collection of folklore texts in lesser used, mostly endangered, Siberian... more corpora.iea.ras.ru) is a collection of folklore texts in lesser used, mostly endangered, Siberian languages and was initiated in 2011 through support from the Department of Northern and Siberian Studies at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of
На основе анализа собственных полевых записей предложено решение проблемы адекватной расшифровки ... more На основе анализа собственных полевых записей предложено решение проблемы адекватной расшифровки звучащих тирад эпических сказаний шорцев и хакасов – тюркских народов Южной Сибири. Эксперимент с исполнением эпоса а капелла (без горлового пения и без музыкального сопровождения), проведенный автором с помощью шорского сказителя Владимира Таннагашева (1932–2007), позволил доказать, что все поющиеся сказителем стихи являются не неким набором усеченных и искаженных слов, как об этом писали даже индигенные исследователи, а осмысленным и потому вполне доступным для расшифровки поэтическим текстом.
Публикация сопровождается QR-кодами, позвоялющими услышать уникальные записи шорского эпоса.
When and how do we recognize the meaning of epic poetry? Turkic peoples of South Siberia, the Sho... more When and how do we recognize the meaning of epic poetry? Turkic peoples of South Siberia, the Shor and the Khakas, are famous for their recitations and song of classic epic tales, but even indigenous researchers are divided on the meaning of the sung portions. This essay takes seriously these sung portions of epic performances to argue that they constitute meaningful poetic texts in their own right. Examples draw on years of field study in South Siberia, and well as an experiment conducted by the author with the help of the Shor storyteller Vladimir Tannagashev (1932-2007), in which epics were performed a cappella, that is, without throat-singing or musical accompaniment.
The entry presents the main stages in the development of anthropology in Siberia. Major research ... more The entry presents the main stages in the development of anthropology in Siberia. Major research areas, schools, and names as well as trends in scholarly thought are presented starting from the early period of knowledge accumulation in the XVIII century onwards. Anthropology in Siberia is shown to be an essentially international area of scientific inquiry.
The article discusses research on social costs of the Russian model of coal extractivism. Through... more The article discusses research on social costs of the Russian model of coal extractivism. Through the case of one of the most notorious and acute conflicts between indigenous population – the Shors – and coal mining companies operating in the Kemerovo region (Russia), it describes key conflict discourses, explores practices of coping with the conflict as well as the implications thereof, and identifies the potential for indigenous communities’ postconflict recovery. The article draws on the authors’ multi-year observation of conflicts unfolding in the regions of extensive coal mining. In Russian social anthropology scholarship, conflicts over resources on the land of indigenous peoples have not been much elaborated on in terms of experiencing trauma, overcoming it, and undergoing post-conflict recovery; the case study presented in the article partly fills this gap.
The proposed course traces key developments in anthropological research on phenomena of the “reso... more The proposed course traces key developments in anthropological research on phenomena of the “resource curse” in post-soviet Siberia. After discussing some fundamental terminology used in the course and overviewing official documents drawn on in social impact assessment practices, as well as following a brief discussion of the history of resource extraction in territories inhabited by the indigenous peoples of Siberia and social and cultural consequences of industrial development in the region, the author goes through various case studies of so-called “ethnological impact assessment” (in Russian: etnologicheskaya ekspertiza) conducted in Siberia, taking note of some major problems of interaction between the state, business companies and indigenous peoples, and analysing underlying theoretical approaches in each of the cases.
Начиная с 2015 года на базе кафедры этнологии исторического факультета МГУ при участии коллег из ... more Начиная с 2015 года на базе кафедры этнологии исторического факультета МГУ при участии коллег из университетов г. Кемерово (Россия) и Хельсинки (Финляндия) (с 2016 года — Оксфорд, Великобритания) осуществляется крупный научно-исследовательский проект «“Ресурсное проклятие” на циркумполярных территориях: российский и международный опыт анализа и урегулирования конфликтов из-за невозобновляемых ресурсов в местах традиционного проживания аборигенных этнических групп», финансируемый Российским научным фондом (грант № 15-18-00112). В данной обзорной статье научного руководителя проекта представлены предварительные итоги его реализации в 2015—2016 гг. Общие итоги реализации проекта планируются в виде коллективной работы участников.
The article describes unique techniques used for braiding rawhide belts by Turkic peoples of sout... more The article describes unique techniques used for braiding rawhide belts by Turkic peoples of southern Western Siberia, the secrets of which have been considered to be lost (and therefore this technique has practically become a “sacred academic metaphor” for things that cannot be deciphered). The author demonstrates that the spiral and longitudinal cutting of belt has not always been predetermined by ethnocultural peculiarities, as existing literature shows, but, rather, both types could co-exist in the culture of the same people, due to functional reasons. The author also shows that whip (kamcha) braiding technique could be used to produce items with either subsquare or subrectangular cuts, whereas those with other shapes of cuts – oval, round, polyhedral – were produced with the help of other techniques. Special attention is paid to braiding techniques reconstruction and description. The types of belt braiding out of two (whip braiding), four, and larger even number of belt groups are illustrated in detail. Unsupported braiding out of two groups of belts was based on intertexture of the “working belt” with belts from another group with its following return to the original group. This principle was underlying the production of whips. In unsupported braiding with four or larger number of groups of belts this principle lied in the basis of each second (even) move of braiding. As for uneven move of braiding, it can be described as intertexture with restacking of “the working belt” from one group to another. The author proves that multi-row braiding was based on the application of these two principles and suggests various ways of describing/recording of craftsmen activities. The article also touches upon the issue of perspective industrial application of this braiding technique.
В коллективной монографии,, базирующейся на значительном полевом опыте авторов, представлены резу... more В коллективной монографии,, базирующейся на значительном полевом опыте авторов, представлены результаты социально-антропологического анализа феномена экстрактивизма как в виде отдельных региональных кейсов, так и теоретически насыщенных обсуждений методики и практики отечественных «этнологических» экспертиз и дискурсивной зависимости от природных ресурсов в целом. Основная часть глав книги написана в рамках проекта «“Ресурсное проклятие” на циркумполярных территориях: российский и международный опыт анализа и урегулирования конфликтов из-за невозобновляемых ресурсов в местах традиционного проживания аборигенных этнических групп» (грант РНФ № 15-18-00112). Книга будет полезна всем социальным антропологам, в особенности специализирующимся на прикладных исследованиях, а также государственным служащим. Работа может быть использована при чтении курсов лекций по прикладной антропологии студентам профильных кафедр.
The book offered to your attention, «Seven Evenings: An Anthology of the Shor Epic», tells the st... more The book offered to your attention, «Seven Evenings: An Anthology of the Shor Epic», tells the story of discovering and studying a unique phenomenon called the Shor heroic epic, and, as sad it may sound, also saying goodbye to this cultural phenomenon as a living practice. The story covers a period of 146 years from 1861 to 2006, and it will be told through the texts themselves, which were recorded, translated, published, and commented on by several generations of researchers and enthusiasts, including the Shors themselves.
В пособии в оригинале и в адаптированном виде представлены
уникальные образцы лирики телеутов. Т... more В пособии в оригинале и в адаптированном виде представлены
уникальные образцы лирики телеутов. Тексты сопровождаются переводами на русский язык, аудио- и видеозаписями в виде QR-кодов, а также языковыми и речевыми упражнениями для развития у учащихся навыков устной и письменной речи.
Предназначено для использования в средней школе на уроках телеутского языка и литературы, а также для самостоятельной работы
В пособии в оригинале и в адаптированном виде представлены уникальные образцы эпоса телеутов. Тек... more В пособии в оригинале и в адаптированном виде представлены уникальные образцы эпоса телеутов. Тексты сопровождаются переводами на русский язык, аудиозаписями в виде QR-кодов, а также языковыми и речевыми упражнениями для развития у учащихся навыков устной и письменной речи. Предназначено для использования в средней школе на уроках телеутского языка и литературы, а также для самостоятельной работы.
Коллективная монография – результат исследования современного социально-экономического поло... more Коллективная монография – результат исследования современного социально-экономического положения и этнокультурной ситуации в районах проживания и традиционной хозяйственной деятельности коренных малочисленных народов Севера. Книга подготовлена на основе материалов текущей статистики, полевых исследований последних лет и обзора научной литературы. Проанализированы наиболее актуальные проблемы современного развития на основании сочетания кросс-культурных и частных социально-антропологических исследований в районах проживания коренных мало- численных народов Севера. Собранные материалы показывают как общие, так и специфические для отдельных регионов проблемы народов Севера, что нашло отражение в авторских текстах и итоговых рекомендациях.
The book contains samples of the folklore of the Bachat Teleuts, one of the smallest Turkic peopl... more The book contains samples of the folklore of the Bachat Teleuts, one of the smallest Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia, recorded since the first third of the 19th century and up to the present time by several generations of researchers and collectors of folklore, including the Teleuts themselves. For the first time in the world practice of publishing South Siberian folklore materials, QR codes were used in the book, allowing you to listen to the texts included into the volume.
В книге представлены образцы фольклора бачатских телеутов, одного из самых малочисленных тюркских... more В книге представлены образцы фольклора бачатских телеутов, одного из самых малочисленных тюркских народов Южной Сибири, записанные в 1980-1990-х годах и переведенные на русский язык самим составителем. Впервые публикуется текст телеутского шаманского камлания Талай-хану из записей начала XX в. известного этнографа и композитора A.B. Анохина. Для тюркологов - лингвистов и этнологов, а также для более широкого круга читателей, интересующихся культурой народов Сибири.
In the fourth volume of the series "The Shor Heroic epic" four epic texts, recorded in the middle... more In the fourth volume of the series "The Shor Heroic epic" four epic texts, recorded in the middle of the 19th century by outstanding scholar of the cultures of the aboriginal population of Sayano-Altai, Friedrich Wilhelm (Vasily Vasilievich) Radloff (1837-1918), are presented. Shor records of Radloff, known from the publication of the original texts (1866), translations into German (1865 and 1866), and free retelling of only two texts for Russian-speaking readers (1893), first appear in a standardized (as close to modern orthography) form in Shor and in Russian. The publication is addressed primarily to the Turkologists, ethnologists, folklorists, students specialized in related subjects, but can also be used by school teachers of the Shor language and be interesting for everyone who studies the Shor language or uses it, who are interested in the culture of the peoples of Siberia.
The amazingly beautiful island of Sakhalin has for centuries been a contact area of different cul... more The amazingly beautiful island of Sakhalin has for centuries been a contact area of different cultures. Here since ancient times collided the interests of those who managed to feel aboriginal and those initially considered outsiders, strangers, and who regarded themselves as such. In the past century and a half these contacts became much more intense due to the active development of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands by Russia and Japan. There is a variety of factors that affected the condition of all areas of culture of the aboriginal population of Sakhalin. Amongst them the development of natural resources of the island by convicts, then afterwards by civilian employees, by one state and then another, difficult inter-state relations between the two powers, the specifics of the national policy of the USSR in the postwar period, the incredibly difficult post-perestroika period and a sharp intensification of industrial companies' activities in the area of extraction of non-renewable natural resources. The authors from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Lomonossov Moscow State University purposely abandoned the idea of expertise of any kind, considering the lack of methodology of the so called ethnological expertise. The aim of the research was the collection and analysis of published, archival and the authors’ field materials, which were supposed to allow to present in a historical context, as far back as possible in the dynamics, the main ethnic and cultural/social characteristics of the studied indigenous cultures of the Sakhalin region. The research – initially as a project titled "Ethnological Studies of Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities" and initiated / financially supported by Exxon Neftegas Limited – was conducted during 2013 in the settlements of three municipalities with population of over 300 Ab-original people, that is, in the Okha (998 people in March 2013), Nogliki (856 people) and Poronaisk districts (344 people) as well as in the regional center Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (254 people). Within the duration of the project, there were interviewed about 170 people, more than 3,000 photographs were taken and about 100 videos were captured. The book consists of eight blocks (chapters) of in-formation adequately and consistently representing the main results of the research that include Old and new identities (by Alexandra Terekhina and Dmitri Funk), Demographic analysis (by Kyrill Shakhovtsov), Social situation (by Alexandra Skibina), Economic activities of Indigenous Peoples (by Shakhovtsov, Nadezhda Mamontova, and Funk), The Indigenous Peoples of Sakhalin and oil companies (by Mamontova), Education and the Indigenous Peoples of Sakhalin (by Terekhina), Linguistic contacts and the sociolinguistic situation (by Mamontova), and (Re)presentation of the Indigenous Peoples of Sakhalin (by Skibina). The book is supplied by recommendations, statistical data, and a DVD with pictures and video collected by the team. The collective volume Culture and Resources: The Results of an Ethnological Survey of Contemporary Conditions among the Northern Native Peoples of Sakhalin can be of interest for all practicing as well as for sociocultural anthropologists seeking for examples of interaction between indigenous/local groups, various business structures and the state in Northern Asia.
The article presents the author's ideas about ethnological methods on the example of an appeal to... more The article presents the author's ideas about ethnological methods on the example of an appeal to the story about the so-called World Tree (this article was written as a short comment to the forthcoming publication of an article by Nikolai Pluzhnikov and Olga Balalaeva). The publication is scheduled in the number 3-2019 of the journal "Ethnographic Review" (Moscow).
В статье представлены рассуждения автора о методике этнологических исследований на примере обраще... more В статье представлены рассуждения автора о методике этнологических исследований на примере обращения к сюжету о так называемом Мировом древе (статья написана в качестве реплики на готовящуюся публикацию развернутой статьи Н.В. Плужникова и О.Э. Балалаевой). Публикация намечена в №3-2019 журнала "Этнографическое обозрение".
Rescued Epics. Review of Аврагдсан туульс. Rescued Epics. Three Heroic Epics from the Repertoire of the Bayit Bard Uwxin Bat. L'Harmattan Kiado, 2012. 215 p. In: Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore. 2013, Vol. 55: 191–193.
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of Siberia and social and cultural consequences of industrial development in the region, the author goes through various case studies of so-called “ethnological impact assessment” (in Russian: etnologicheskaya ekspertiza) conducted in Siberia, taking note of some major problems of interaction between the state, business companies and indigenous peoples, and analysing underlying theoretical approaches in each of the cases.
The article also touches upon the issue of perspective industrial application of this braiding technique.
Публикация сопровождается QR-кодами, позвоялющими услышать уникальные записи шорского эпоса.
of Siberia and social and cultural consequences of industrial development in the region, the author goes through various case studies of so-called “ethnological impact assessment” (in Russian: etnologicheskaya ekspertiza) conducted in Siberia, taking note of some major problems of interaction between the state, business companies and indigenous peoples, and analysing underlying theoretical approaches in each of the cases.
The article also touches upon the issue of perspective industrial application of this braiding technique.
Книга будет полезна всем социальным антропологам, в особенности специализирующимся на прикладных исследованиях, а также государственным служащим. Работа может быть использована при чтении курсов лекций по прикладной антропологии студентам профильных кафедр.
уникальные образцы лирики телеутов. Тексты сопровождаются переводами на русский язык, аудио- и видеозаписями в виде QR-кодов, а также языковыми и речевыми упражнениями для развития у учащихся навыков устной и письменной речи.
Предназначено для использования в средней школе на уроках телеутского языка и литературы, а также для самостоятельной работы
Предназначено для использования в средней школе на уроках телеутского языка и литературы, а также для самостоятельной работы.
Книга подготовлена на основе материалов текущей статистики, полевых исследований
последних лет и обзора научной литературы. Проанализированы наиболее актуальные
проблемы современного развития на основании сочетания кросс-культурных и частных
социально-антропологических исследований в районах проживания коренных мало-
численных народов Севера. Собранные материалы показывают как общие, так и специфические для отдельных регионов проблемы народов Севера, что нашло отражение в авторских текстах и итоговых рекомендациях.
Для тюркологов - лингвистов и этнологов, а также для более широкого круга читателей, интересующихся культурой народов Сибири.
Shor records of Radloff, known from the publication of the original texts (1866), translations into German (1865 and 1866), and free retelling of only two texts for Russian-speaking readers (1893), first appear in a standardized (as close to modern orthography) form in Shor and in Russian.
The publication is addressed primarily to the Turkologists, ethnologists, folklorists, students specialized in related subjects, but can also be used by school teachers of the Shor language and be interesting for everyone who studies the Shor language or uses it, who are interested in the culture of the peoples of Siberia.
The authors from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Lomonossov Moscow State University purposely abandoned the idea of expertise of any kind, considering the lack of methodology of the so called ethnological expertise. The aim of the research was the collection and analysis of published, archival and the authors’ field materials, which were supposed to allow to present in a historical context, as far back as possible in the dynamics, the main ethnic and cultural/social characteristics of the studied indigenous cultures of the Sakhalin region. The research – initially as a project titled "Ethnological Studies of Sakhalin Indigenous Minorities" and initiated / financially supported by Exxon Neftegas Limited – was conducted during 2013 in the settlements of three municipalities with population of over 300 Ab-original people, that is, in the Okha (998 people in March 2013), Nogliki (856 people) and Poronaisk districts (344 people) as well as in the regional center Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (254 people). Within the duration of the project, there were interviewed about 170 people, more than 3,000 photographs were taken and about 100 videos were captured.
The book consists of eight blocks (chapters) of in-formation adequately and consistently representing the main results of the research that include Old and new identities (by Alexandra Terekhina and Dmitri Funk), Demographic analysis (by Kyrill Shakhovtsov), Social situation (by Alexandra Skibina), Economic activities of Indigenous Peoples (by Shakhovtsov, Nadezhda Mamontova, and Funk), The Indigenous Peoples of Sakhalin and oil companies (by Mamontova), Education and the Indigenous Peoples of Sakhalin (by Terekhina), Linguistic contacts and the sociolinguistic situation (by Mamontova), and (Re)presentation of the Indigenous Peoples of Sakhalin (by Skibina).
The book is supplied by recommendations, statistical data, and a DVD with pictures and video collected by the team.
The collective volume Culture and Resources: The Results of an Ethnological Survey of Contemporary Conditions among the Northern Native Peoples of Sakhalin can be of interest for all practicing as well as for sociocultural anthropologists seeking for examples of interaction between indigenous/local groups, various business structures and the state in Northern Asia.