Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina
This article investigates the representation of traditional culture in ethnographic films among the indigenous peoples of the Russian North. The special attention is paid to childhood in traditional culture of Khanty peoples in Ugra. The article focuses on the documentary film Malen’kaia Katerina (T...
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description | This article investigates the representation of traditional culture in ethnographic films among the indigenous peoples of the Russian North. The special attention is paid to childhood in traditional culture of Khanty peoples in Ugra. The article focuses on the documentary film Malen’kaia Katerina (Tiny Katerina; Ivan Golovnev 2004), which depicts the childhood of a Khanty girl in northwestern Siberia over the course of three years. Authors analyze the child’s relation to nature, adulthood, and the development of gender identity. The article looks into the cinematographic techniques used for the film creation and major episodes of the film such as “a child`s role in Khanty culture”, “play”, ‘the adult world”. Also explored are objective and subjective conditions in which the cinematographic image is created, with a special emphasis being put on studying filmmaker's (director's) role in film production. The conclusion drawn is that, on the one hand, the ethnographic film is a valuable contribution to Anthropology that adds to the corpus of documents on traditional culture of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North. On the other hand, the film contains evidence of scientific criticism and allows one to explore cinematographic material from anthropological, historical, and psychological positions. Authors came to conclusion that ethnographic cinema can be seen as promising research methodology in the field of contemporary anthropology. This essay re- elaborates and enriches some of the themes already present in a previous contribution The Representation of Childhood in Ethnographic Films of Siberian Indigenous Peoples: The Case of the Documentary Film Malen’kaia Katerina (Tiny Katerina) [Golovnev I., Golovneva E. 2016, 83-106]. |
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spelling | ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:31097b6a94db457aa04f47dc8143bee9 2025-01-16T22:52:39+00:00 Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina Ivan Golovnev Elena Golovneva 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/31097b6a94db457aa04f47dc8143bee9 EN ES FR IT eng spa fre ita CLUEB https://www.rivisteclueb.it/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/view/277 https://doaj.org/toc/2284-0176 2284-0176 https://doaj.org/article/31097b6a94db457aa04f47dc8143bee9 EtnoAntropologia, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2018) Adulthood ethnographic film ethnography of childhood Khanty northwestern Siberia traditional culture Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 article 2018 ftdoajarticles 2023-02-12T01:25:28Z This article investigates the representation of traditional culture in ethnographic films among the indigenous peoples of the Russian North. The special attention is paid to childhood in traditional culture of Khanty peoples in Ugra. The article focuses on the documentary film Malen’kaia Katerina (Tiny Katerina; Ivan Golovnev 2004), which depicts the childhood of a Khanty girl in northwestern Siberia over the course of three years. Authors analyze the child’s relation to nature, adulthood, and the development of gender identity. The article looks into the cinematographic techniques used for the film creation and major episodes of the film such as “a child`s role in Khanty culture”, “play”, ‘the adult world”. Also explored are objective and subjective conditions in which the cinematographic image is created, with a special emphasis being put on studying filmmaker's (director's) role in film production. The conclusion drawn is that, on the one hand, the ethnographic film is a valuable contribution to Anthropology that adds to the corpus of documents on traditional culture of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North. On the other hand, the film contains evidence of scientific criticism and allows one to explore cinematographic material from anthropological, historical, and psychological positions. Authors came to conclusion that ethnographic cinema can be seen as promising research methodology in the field of contemporary anthropology. This essay re- elaborates and enriches some of the themes already present in a previous contribution The Representation of Childhood in Ethnographic Films of Siberian Indigenous Peoples: The Case of the Documentary Film Malen’kaia Katerina (Tiny Katerina) [Golovnev I., Golovneva E. 2016, 83-106]. Article in Journal/Newspaper khanty Russian North Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
spellingShingle | Adulthood ethnographic film ethnography of childhood Khanty northwestern Siberia traditional culture Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Ivan Golovnev Elena Golovneva Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina |
title | Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina |
title_full | Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina |
title_fullStr | Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina |
title_full_unstemmed | Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina |
title_short | Traditional Northern communities in ethnographic film: Khanty. The case of the documentary film Tiny Katerina |
title_sort | traditional northern communities in ethnographic film: khanty. the case of the documentary film tiny katerina |
topic | Adulthood ethnographic film ethnography of childhood Khanty northwestern Siberia traditional culture Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 |
topic_facet | Adulthood ethnographic film ethnography of childhood Khanty northwestern Siberia traditional culture Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 |
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