NATIVE SPIRITUALITY IN (RE)CONSTRUCTED PERSONHOOD

• Published in: Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore
• Main Authors: Toulouze, Eva, Niglas, Liivo
• Other Authors: Centre de recherches Europes-Eurasie (CREE EA 4513), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), University of Tartu, Estonian Science Foundation (grant No. 8335), European Project: CECT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: personhood; identity; spirituality; religion; participant observation; ethnographic film; [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; Vella; nenets; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276173; https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276173/document; https://hal-inalco.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01276173/file/toulouze_niglas%20Folklore%2051.pdf; https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2012.51.toulouze-niglas

International audience This article is an attempt to understand what role spiritual matters play in the ideas and everyday life of a public figure quite famous in Western Siberia, the Forest Nenets writer, reindeer herder and activist Yuri Vella, and how the so-called religious practice is articulat...