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Focusing on the Indigenous peoples of Kamchatka, this volume brings together decades of field research by anthropologists from around the world, including Indigenous Kamchatkan scholars. It examines the lives of Itelmens, Koryaks, Chukchis, Alutors, and Ainus through topics including relationships to the landscape and mapmaking, storytelling, fishing and making a living, social and political life, rituals and personhood, and histories of cultural exchange, trade, and migration. It addresses Kamchatka’s distinct history of settler-colonial occupation and its contemporary legacies. Offering a broad anthropological perspective on this diverse region of Russia, the collection also speaks to scholars of folklore, religion, geography, and related disciplines.
Alexander D. King has been working with Indigenous Kamchatkans for over 30 years. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at University of Aberdeen and is now Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College. His most recent research is documenting the last generation of fully fluent Koryak speakers with Valentina R. Dedyk.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: David Koester, Alexander D. King, Jonathan David Bobaljik
Chapter 1. Rethinking Cultural Landscapes through Indigenous-led Countermapping
Viktoria V. Petrasheva, Tatiana S. Degai, Viktoria N. Sharakhmatova, Semyon V. Drozdetckii
Chapter 2. The Story of Asdiwal Inverted: Challenges of History, Concept and Consciousness
David Koester
Chapter 3. Rooting around in the Mouse Stores: Traditional Root Digging in Kamchatka.
Jonathan David Bobaljik
Chapter 4. Koryak Necromantic Landscapes, or How to Walk Your Dog to the Next Life
Alexander D. King
Chapter 5. The Words Dreams are Made of: Koryak and Russian Languages in Dream Narratives and Interpretations
Amélie Barbier
Chapter 6. ‘Our Collective was a Millionaire!’ – Nostalgia, Development, and Post-Soviet Institutions
Drew Gerkey
Chapter 7. “According to the Law of the Strongest”: the Social Life of Fish and Law in Kamchatka
Florian Stammler, Aytalina Ivanova, Viktoria Sharakhmatova
Chapter 8. Revisiting Archaeological Materials from Kamchatka in the Bergman Collection Curated in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Sweden
Katsunori Takase
Conclusion: The Land, Narratives, and Kinship in Kamchatka
Alexander D. King
Index