Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia featured The dissolution of the Soviet Union has opened up new processes of building and rebuilding collective identities in the Russian North. Contests over identity have become highly politicised and are seen by many inhabitants of …
Properties of Culture – Culture as Property Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia Indigenous groups are reshaping and claiming possession of symbols, not only in the Russian North and other circumpolar regions but worldwide. In addition to material objects and practices, knowledge itself is …
People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia While much has been written on post-Soviet change in Russian urban centres, we still know very little about how these changes have affected peoples' lives in rural communities. This is nowhere more true than in the vast regions of …
Maskentänze der Kwakiutl: Tradition und Wandel in einem indianischen Dorf Der Autor untersucht die Ursachen für das Wiederaufleben der Potlatchfeste bei den Kwakiutl-Indianern an der kanadischen Nordwestküste. Vom mythischen Ursprung der traditionellen Maskentänze bei diesen Festen schlägt er den …
Lachsfang und Bärentanz: Die Itelmenen 250 Jahre nach ihrer Beschreibung durch Georg Wilhelm Steller Begleitbuch zu der Ausstellung Steller und die Itelmenen von Erich Kasten im Rahmen der Ausstellung Die Große Nordische Expedition: Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746). Ein Lutheraner erforscht …
Bicultural Education in the North: Ways of Preserving and Enhancing Indigenous Peoples' Languages and Traditional Knowledge This book is about the cultural diversity of the peoples of the North, and how this can be maintained and enhanced in the future. Anthropologists and ethnolinguists as well …