Itelmen Stories
"Itelmen stories" is a poignant tale of the social and personal significance of a language that is near the end of its existence as an orally transmitted means of communication. The film presents both the speaking of the Itelmen language, as it exists today and the meaning of using it in t...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:426fa82fef5f4ce79b0b00106805d6bd 2023-05-15T16:56:48+02:00 Itelmen Stories Liivo Niglas 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v6i1.3456 https://doaj.org/article/426fa82fef5f4ce79b0b00106805d6bd EN eng Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) https://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/3456 https://doaj.org/toc/2535-437X doi:10.15845/jaf.v6i1.3456 2535-437X https://doaj.org/article/426fa82fef5f4ce79b0b00106805d6bd Journal of Anthropological Films, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2022) Kamchatka Peninsula Itelmens sable hunting endangered languages Far East of Siberia Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v6i1.3456 2022-12-30T23:31:53Z "Itelmen stories" is a poignant tale of the social and personal significance of a language that is near the end of its existence as an orally transmitted means of communication. The film presents both the speaking of the Itelmen language, as it exists today and the meaning of using it in the past and the present. The action in the film revolves around an ancestrally used practice of hunting sable by net. Set in rural Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, where fewer than 20 speakers of Itelmen remain, the film goes beyond its original aim to recapture a language and a hunting practice that are remembered but no longer in use. Two hunters encounter the wild environs and villages of Kamchatka as a history laden homeland and memories, nostalgia, resignation and hope echo throughout the film. Article in Journal/Newspaper Itelmen Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Kamchatka Peninsula ENVELOPE(160.000,160.000,56.000,56.000) Journal of Anthropological Films 6 1 |
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"Itelmen stories" is a poignant tale of the social and personal significance of a language that is near the end of its existence as an orally transmitted means of communication. The film presents both the speaking of the Itelmen language, as it exists today and the meaning of using it in the past and the present. The action in the film revolves around an ancestrally used practice of hunting sable by net. Set in rural Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, where fewer than 20 speakers of Itelmen remain, the film goes beyond its original aim to recapture a language and a hunting practice that are remembered but no longer in use. Two hunters encounter the wild environs and villages of Kamchatka as a history laden homeland and memories, nostalgia, resignation and hope echo throughout the film. |
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