Encountering the Tsar
This article discusses Nenets epic songs, focusing on two texts collected at the beginning of the twentieth century in relation to the divergent historicities they represent. The process of gathering and publishing folklore is analysed as folklorisation, whereby the texts have come to represent a ne...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:9984fd26e3ec4c79a1c8b30b976897fd 2023-11-12T04:21:07+01:00 Encountering the Tsar Karina Lukin 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.115609 https://doaj.org/article/9984fd26e3ec4c79a1c8b30b976897fd EN eng Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/115609 https://doaj.org/toc/1799-8972 doi:10.30676/jfas.115609 1799-8972 https://doaj.org/article/9984fd26e3ec4c79a1c8b30b976897fd Suomen Antropologi, Vol 47, Iss 3 (2023) Anthropology GN1-890 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.115609 2023-10-15T00:39:34Z This article discusses Nenets epic songs, focusing on two texts collected at the beginning of the twentieth century in relation to the divergent historicities they represent. The process of gathering and publishing folklore is analysed as folklorisation, whereby the texts have come to represent a negation of the modern, but not giving voice to the singers or their communities. Nenets epic songs have served Finnish nationalism and Russian imperialism in creating hierarchies between Finns and their linguistic relatives and between different Russian ethnic groups, including Russians and the Nenets. The process of traditionalisation is discussed as a local strategy of recreating meaningful narration that relates both to tradition and other contextually relevant discourses. The songs discussed are shown to depict not specific past events, but rather Nenets historical experiences and understandings about their subaltern position and agency within the imperial context. Keywords: Nenets, epic poetry, historicity, folklorisation, traditionalisation, imperialism Article in Journal/Newspaper nenets Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 47 3 18 38 |
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This article discusses Nenets epic songs, focusing on two texts collected at the beginning of the twentieth century in relation to the divergent historicities they represent. The process of gathering and publishing folklore is analysed as folklorisation, whereby the texts have come to represent a negation of the modern, but not giving voice to the singers or their communities. Nenets epic songs have served Finnish nationalism and Russian imperialism in creating hierarchies between Finns and their linguistic relatives and between different Russian ethnic groups, including Russians and the Nenets. The process of traditionalisation is discussed as a local strategy of recreating meaningful narration that relates both to tradition and other contextually relevant discourses. The songs discussed are shown to depict not specific past events, but rather Nenets historical experiences and understandings about their subaltern position and agency within the imperial context. Keywords: Nenets, epic poetry, historicity, folklorisation, traditionalisation, imperialism |
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