Zoya and Ira on Funerals, births and other traditions - Part 2

• Format: Audio
• Language: Russian; English
• Published: Alexander King 1998
• Subjects: Ritual; Koryak language; Russian language; English language; Pakhachi; Srednie; Chukchi; Koryak; Koryaks
• Online Access: https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1313564%23

Continuation. Begins with description of "first reindeer" ritual. After I came back from my 2 weeks living at the reindeer herd and observing a funeral, Ira and Zoya stopped me in a village street and told me to get my tape recorder ready because they had some things to tell me about real Koryak traditions. Ira expressed irritation at what some unnamed Russian ethnographers had written about Chukchi/Koryaks, particularly concerning birth rituals. I think she had read (heard?) that they had written that Chukchi mothers eat the placenta like deer, and she was outraged to think that they were represented as being like animals. Mostly in Russian with some Koryak spoken between Ira and Zoya. Ira is doing most of the talking.