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The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous peoples, it presents the young people's narratives about their own future and shows how they form constructs of time, space, agency and personhood through the process of growing up and experiencing their social world. The study brings a new perspective to the anthropology of childhood and uncovers a quite unexpected dynamic in narrating and foreshadowing the future while relating it to cultural patterns of prediction and fulfillment in nomadic cosmology. Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Scott Polar Research Institute and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She has carried out fieldwork for a decade in Siberia on childhood, youth, religion, reindeer herding and hunting and coedited Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn Books 2012).

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Narrating the Future in Siberia
• Author: Olga Ulturgasheva
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 210
• EAN: 9780857457660
• ISBN: 0857457667
• ID: 01291765
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 234 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2012

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