'Blood' kinship and kinship in Christ's blood: nomadic evangelism in the Nenets tundra
The article addresses a conflicting encounter of two ideologies of kinship, ‘natural’and ‘religious’, among the newly established Evangelical communities of Nenets in the Polar Ural and Yamal tundra. An ideology of Christian kinship, as an outcome of ‘spiritual re-birth’, was introduced through Nene...
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ftunivcollcork:oai:cora.ucc.ie:10468/6720 2023-08-27T04:08:00+02:00 'Blood' kinship and kinship in Christ's blood: nomadic evangelism in the Nenets tundra Vagramenko, Tatiana 2017 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10468/6720 https://doi.org/10.1515/jef-2017-0009 en eng De Gruyter Open Ltd https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jef/11/1/article-p151.xml Vagramenko, T. (2017) '‘Blood' kinship and kinship in Christ's blood: nomadic evangelism in the Nenets tundra', Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 11(1), pp. 151-169. doi:10.1515/jef-2017-0009 doi:10.1515/jef-2017-0009 169 1736-6518 2228-0987 1 Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 151 http://hdl.handle.net/10468/6720 11 © 2017, Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian National Museum, University of Tartu. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Kinship Blood Nenets indigenous people Evangelical Christianity Missionary movement Russian Arctic Article (peer-reviewed) 2017 ftunivcollcork https://doi.org/10.1515/jef-2017-0009 2023-08-06T14:30:26Z The article addresses a conflicting encounter of two ideologies of kinship, ‘natural’and ‘religious’, among the newly established Evangelical communities of Nenets in the Polar Ural and Yamal tundra. An ideology of Christian kinship, as an outcome of ‘spiritual re-birth’, was introduced through Nenets religious conversion. The article argues that although the born-again experience often turned against ancestral traditions and Nenets traditional kinship ties, the Nenets kinship system became a platform upon which the conversion mechanism was furthered and determined in the Nenets tundra. The article examines missionary initiatives and Nenets religiosity as kin-based activities, the outcome of which was twofold. On one side, it was the realignment of Nenets traditional kinship networks. On other side, it was the indigenisation of the Christian concept of kinship according to native internal cultural logic. Evangelical communities in the tundra were plunged into the traditional practices of Nenets kinship networks, economic exchanges, and marriage alliances. Through negotiation of traditional Nenets kinship and Christian kinship, converted Nenets developed new imaginaries, new forms of exchanges, and even new forms of mobility.iage alliances. Through negotiation of traditional Nenets kinship and Christian kinship, converted Nenets developed new imaginaries, new forms of exchanges, and even new forms of mobility. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic nenets Tundra University College Cork, Ireland: Cork Open Research Archive (CORA) Arctic Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 11 1 151 169 |
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The article addresses a conflicting encounter of two ideologies of kinship, ‘natural’and ‘religious’, among the newly established Evangelical communities of Nenets in the Polar Ural and Yamal tundra. An ideology of Christian kinship, as an outcome of ‘spiritual re-birth’, was introduced through Nenets religious conversion. The article argues that although the born-again experience often turned against ancestral traditions and Nenets traditional kinship ties, the Nenets kinship system became a platform upon which the conversion mechanism was furthered and determined in the Nenets tundra. The article examines missionary initiatives and Nenets religiosity as kin-based activities, the outcome of which was twofold. On one side, it was the realignment of Nenets traditional kinship networks. On other side, it was the indigenisation of the Christian concept of kinship according to native internal cultural logic. Evangelical communities in the tundra were plunged into the traditional practices of Nenets kinship networks, economic exchanges, and marriage alliances. Through negotiation of traditional Nenets kinship and Christian kinship, converted Nenets developed new imaginaries, new forms of exchanges, and even new forms of mobility.iage alliances. Through negotiation of traditional Nenets kinship and Christian kinship, converted Nenets developed new imaginaries, new forms of exchanges, and even new forms of mobility. |
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