A Man of Words and Silence: A Siberian Intellectual’s Mixed Patterns of Communication

• Main Author: Toulouze, Eva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Estonian Literary Museum, the Estonian National Museum and the University of Tartu 2023
• Subjects: Siberia; Forest Nenets; silence; speech; gender; intercultural communication; dialogue; monologue; Vella; nenets
• Online Access: https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/JEF/article/view/22713

Yuri Vella (1948–2013) was a well-known personality in Western Siberia’s indigenous world.Unlike most Western Siberia indigenous inhabitants, Yuri Vella was exceptionally skilled with words. He used words in everyday life in order to achieve his goals, among which the main one was to protect his kin...