L’épopée nord-samoyède (Arctique sibérien). Comment trouver une solution à l’alliance dans une société devenue opulente ?

• Published in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
• Main Author: Lambert, Jean-Luc
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2014
• Subjects: épopée; élevage; renne; tradition orale; alliance; changement social; Sibérie; Samoyèdes; Ougriens; Ob; epic; pastoralism; reindeer; oral tradition; social change; Siberia; Samoyed; Ugric; relig; art; Arctic; Renne; Arctique*; samoyèd*; samoyed*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.2352; http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/2352

The north-samoyedic epic describes an affluent pastoral society. The main problem of this imagined society is its perpetuation because the men have no need of material goods and therefore refuse to give their daughters for reindeers or furs. So, murderous conflicts systematically appear. A solution...