« La tête vers le lever du soleil… »

• Published in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
• Main Author: Vaté, Virginie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2009
• Subjects: éleveurs de rennes; espace domestique; pratiques rituelles; rituels d’élevage; domestic space; herding rituals; reindeer herders; ritual practices; hist; phil; Amguema; Kanchalan; Lever; Chukchee; Chukotka; Tchouktche*
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/864

Through a comparison of data collected among Chukchee reindeer herders in two different regions of Chukotka (Amguema and Kanchalan), this article investigates the issue of spatial orientation in the domestic sphere in everyday life and in ritual, with two main goals: 1) to emphasize that the transla...