私とロシア、シベリア : 回想と随想

• Main Authors: 吉田, 睦, YOSHIDA, Atsushi
• Format: Report
• Language: Japanese
• Published: 千葉大学ユーラシア言語文化論講座 2023
• Subjects: Evenki; Evens; nenets; Siberia
• Online Access: https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/900122324/; https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/900122324/S21857148-25-P001-YOS.pdf

[ABSTRACT] I have been a member of the Course of Eurasian Languages and Cultures in the Faculty of Letters at Chiba University for exactly 25 years, a quarter of a century since April 1999, and I am retiring this spring. During this time, I have been blessed with good colleagues and students, and I will be retiring without any notable incidents. Looking back, Russian and Siberian studies have been my life's work since my previous position as an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I have been associated with them as a part of my life. Including eight years in Moscow and two years in Nakhodka in the Far East, I have done fieldwork in Siberia many times, and my experiences and memories overlap like strata and annual rings. The most significant event of all was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Without it, I would not have conducted ethnographic research in Siberia, and I would not be in my current position. That is why the current political and social situation in Russia is so grave that it denies and betrays these trends and forces the world to view Russia's existence and value in a negative light. Living experience with the reindeer herders of the Nenets, Evens, Evenki and Yukagirs, among whom I have been able to conduct direct field research, has been the most valuable of all. Their families provided us with the opportunity to eat and sleep in their homes and gave us a great source of academic and humane sustenance. I cannot express my gratitude to them enough. These indigenous peoples have overcome many changes in political and social conditions in the past, and they will be moving on to the next horizon again this time. I have little concern about that. They have such resilience embedded in themselves. What we are concerned about, however, is the alteration of the residential and livelihood environment by development activities. More worrying is how the research environment will be maintained in the future due to university so-called reforms and/or reorganization within the faculty. We hope that ...