Different Risks, Different Biographies: The Roles of Reversibility for Buryats and Circularity for Evenki People

The article is based on fieldwork conducted in Southern Siberia among Buryat and Evenki people in 2006. By comparing the strategies of risk management persons with articulated biographies (Buryat shaman and Evenki businessman) use, we investigated the general patterns of ways Evenki and Buryat peopl...

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Main Authors: Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:German
English
Spanish
Published: FQS 2010
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/8e3c36770b6848d58574a787e0f4f0d0
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Summary:The article is based on fieldwork conducted in Southern Siberia among Buryat and Evenki people in 2006. By comparing the strategies of risk management persons with articulated biographies (Buryat shaman and Evenki businessman) use, we investigated the general patterns of ways Evenki and Buryat people deal with the world, search or avoid risks, construct own biographies. The reversibility and linearity play important roles for Buryats. Evenki people experience the circularity in all the processes and search for multiplicity. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs100111