Narrating the Future in Siberia : Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny.

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...

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Author / Creator: Ulturgasheva, Olga.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2012.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Characters*
  • Introduction - Narrating the future
  • Chapter 1 - Future Autobiographies and Their Spaces
  • Chapter 2 - Eveny Childhood and Adolescence
  • Chapter 3 - Forest and Village
  • Chapter 4 - Three Future Autobiographies
  • Chapter 5 - Reindeer and Child in the Forest Chronotope
  • Chapter 6 - The Village as Domain of Unhappiness: Broken Families and the Curse of the GULAG
  • Chapter 7 - Cosmologies of the Future in the Shadow of Djuluchen
  • References
  • Index.