The Evenki Memorial Tree and Trail: Negotiating with a Memorial Regime in the North Baikal, Siberia

• Main Author: Simonova, Veronika V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Estonian Literary Museum, the Estonian National Museum and the University of Tartu 2012
• Subjects: Evenkis; North Baikal; the Taiga; Siberia; social memory; landscape of remembering; Evenki; taiga
• Online Access: https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/JEF/article/view/22603

Based upon the ethnography gathered among Evenkis living in Kholodnoye village in the northern coastal area of Lake Baikal in Siberia this article discusses relationships between local memorial practices and official memorial regimes. Although negotiation between authoritative and alternative memori...