Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field.
Although Siberian ethnography was an open and international field at the turn of the 20th century, from about 1930 until the late 1980s Siberia was for the most part closed to foreigners and therefore to Western ethnographers. This allowed Soviet ethnographers to establish a virtual monopoly on Sibe...
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ftunivmaynooth:oai:mural.maynoothuniversity.ie:1236 2023-05-15T18:19:38+02:00 Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. Gray, Patty A. Vakhtin, Nikolai Schweitzer, Peter 2003 application/pdf https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1236/ http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/sibiric/2003/00000003/00000002/art00005 https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1236/1/Gray_et_al._Sibirica.pdf en eng Berghahn Journals https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1236/1/Gray_et_al._Sibirica.pdf Gray, Patty A. and Vakhtin, Nikolai and Schweitzer, Peter (2003) Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. Sibirica, 3 (2). pp. 194-216. ISSN 1361-7362 cc_by_nc CC-BY-NC Anthropology Article NonPeerReviewed 2003 ftunivmaynooth 2022-06-13T18:41:47Z Although Siberian ethnography was an open and international field at the turn of the 20th century, from about 1930 until the late 1980s Siberia was for the most part closed to foreigners and therefore to Western ethnographers. This allowed Soviet ethnographers to establish a virtual monopoly on Siberian field sites. Soviet and Western anthropology developed during that period in relative isolation from one another, allowing methodologies and theoretical approaches to diverge. During glasnost’ and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Siberian field was reopened and field studies were conducted by several Western ethnographers. The resulting encounter between Western and former Soviet ethnographers in the 1980s and 1990s produced a degree of cultural shock as well new challenges and opportunities on both sides. This is an experiential account of the mood of these newly reunited colleagues at the turn of the 21st century. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sibirica Siberia Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (National University of Ireland) |
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Although Siberian ethnography was an open and international field at the turn of the 20th century, from about 1930 until the late 1980s Siberia was for the most part closed to foreigners and therefore to Western ethnographers. This allowed Soviet ethnographers to establish a virtual monopoly on Siberian field sites. Soviet and Western anthropology developed during that period in relative isolation from one another, allowing methodologies and theoretical approaches to diverge. During glasnost’ and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Siberian field was reopened and field studies were conducted by several Western ethnographers. The resulting encounter between Western and former Soviet ethnographers in the 1980s and 1990s produced a degree of cultural shock as well new challenges and opportunities on both sides. This is an experiential account of the mood of these newly reunited colleagues at the turn of the 21st century. |
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Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. |
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Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. |
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Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. |
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who owns siberian ethnography? a critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. |
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https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/1236/1/Gray_et_al._Sibirica.pdf Gray, Patty A. and Vakhtin, Nikolai and Schweitzer, Peter (2003) Who owns Siberian ethnography? A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field. Sibirica, 3 (2). pp. 194-216. ISSN 1361-7362 |
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