Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-56-11-22
E. Melnikova, Z. Vasilyeva
The questions in the fifty-sixth issue of Antropologicheskij Forum addressed the changes that have taken place in our lives and workover the past year. By focusing on the concept of “boundaries”, theeditors invited the authors to reflect on the changes that are occuringtoday in our professional practices, in the field, and in our understandingof the profession. The Forum was meant to be a platformfor dialogue between people not only divided, but still united byboundaries—disciplinary, epistemic, value-based, etc. The variety ofresponses and reactions received, and the sharpness and emotionalityof many remarks faced the editors with a difficult choice. Finally,we made the decision not to publish the materials of the ‘SocialSciences and Boundaries’ Forum in the journal. In our ‘Afterwordan Unpublished Forum’ we discuss topics that have become key today:silence, public dumbness, attempts to overcome them, and the searchfor new ways to talk about modernity in the social sciences in Russiaand about Russia today.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-56-120-168
V. Vyugin
The article deals with the history of the notion of “cultural recycling” in the 21st century. This is a continuation of my previous research focused on its early period which started in the 1960s. Although the expression discussed is widely known, there has been no systematic research into its evolving reception over the last half-century. The notion does not belong exclusively to any particular field of humanities; therefore, the proposed survey is inevitably interdisciplinary. Two basic trends will be at the centre of my attention. From the perspective of one, in line with the criticism of postmodern and modern society, cultural recycling was seen as a symptom of a crisis of history from the very beginning, a hallmark of the time thought to be the end of an epoch. Since political and ethical connotations were important for the theories which appropriated the term, it took, at least initially and partly, the meaning of an invective. As regards the discourse of the criticism of the “(post)modern” culture, two points are evident. On the one hand, at a certain moment, a positive attitude towards recycling began to gradually displace the negatively evaluated “eschatological” view. On the other, some scholars finally “deconstructed” it as self-contradictory. Another major trend of both the 20th and 21st century can be characterised as a form of universalism. It embraces the understandings based on the presumption that recycling is immanent, “natural” to culture. Thus, regardless of scholars’ personal intentions, one can qualify it as apologetic. In addition to various interpretations of the term, with respect to the first trend I will comment on its relationships with notions such as collective memory, nostalgia, trauma, new media, and “cultural trash”. With respect to the second, at the centre of my attention will be the issue of epigonism, interdiscursive and crosscultural forms of recycling, the usage of the term in folklore and myth studies, and in anthropology.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-58-278-302
Tatiana Zhigaltsova
The article presents an overview of the main theoretical approaches to the origins of the notions of “basic” and “moral” emotions, and the correlation of emotions and space in such scientific fields as cultural anthropology, sociology, and psychology, starting from the 1980s. Also, the article provides examples of contemporary research which utilizes the visualization of basic and moral emotions by means of applications and computer software as a method of studying the emotional image of the city (cities). In 2017–2022, the author created emotion maps of semi-abandoned Vorzogory and Maloshuika villages and Komsomolsky settlement of the Arkhangelsk region (northern Russia), based on anonymous questionnaires among their permanent senior residents. Mapping of emotions made it possible to visualize problem emotional loci, to reveal the existence of emotional segregation and places of mixed emotions, and to determine the borders of emotional environments. As a result of field observations and analysis of travel blogs, the author concludes that there is a “a conflict of emotions”, i.e. a contradiction between the basic and moral emotions. Not only places of basic emotions, such as anxiety and disgust, but also places of moral emotions, such as pride and shame, require preventive work, aimed at avoiding potential community conflicts, as well as conflicts between the local populations and tourists/migrants, preserving emotional health of senior citizens, and in the end, promoting sustainable development of local communities.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-58-12-189
Svetlana Adonyeva, Anna Altukhova, Mikhail Belov, Artem Davydov, Alexandra Dugushina, Maria Erofeeva, Irina Fufaeva, Evgeny Golovko, Lenore Grenoble, Dmitry Kolyadov, Svetlana Korolyova, Maksim Krongauz, Anna Lazareva, Elena Levkievskaya, Marina Martynova, Alexander Novik, Roman Petrov, Ksenia Polesskaya, Irina Prus, Nancy Ries, Ekaterina Rudneva, Alisher Sharipov, Nikita Shevchenko, Sergei Shtyrkov, Laura Siragusa, Svetlana Tolstaya, Polina Ulanovskaya
Linguistic anthropology taken as a union of linguistics and anthropology in the study of language and culture was established more than a century ago. In recent decades, one can observe signs both of its gradual integration into the Western anthropological project, and of a its certain esotericization and marginalization. In Russian academia, a stricter division of labor is normal: ethnographers deal with culture, philologists and linguists deal with language and communication. But can one say that Russian ethnographers and social anthropologists completely ignore communicative phenomena in their research? The “Linguistic Anthropology forum” is dedicated to the current state of language and culture research in Russia. What place do language and communication occupy in the work of Russian researchers of culture? What is the current relationship between linguistics and social anthropology (ethnography)? How do Russian researchers solve specific problems at the intersection of these disciplines (as examples, the “unspoken” and problems related to translation — as a metaphor and as an analytical tool — are chosen)? How does the correlation between Western and Russian theoretical schools look like at this interdisciplinary borderline? What could be the future of language and cultural studies in Russia? To discuss these and other issues, we invited representatives of a wide range of scholarship about language and culture: social anthropology and ethnography, linguistics and sociolinguistics, folklore, history, and sociology.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-56-93-119
Polina Kislitsyna
The article is devoted to how non-heterosexual people look for perceived signs of their sexual otherness in the past and present them in biographical narratives. This search for clues is like an investigation: informants select events and details from childhood and adolescence that are assumed to be related to their current sexual identity. These clues include, among other things, recollections of childhood sexualized games, child gender otherness, and childhood interest or indifference to the topic of sexuality. In biographical interviews and written autobiographies, the author considers rhetorical strategies for the self-description of non-heterosexual people. The evidence paradigm of K. Ginzburg is used as a conceptualization tool, but, in this case, participants look for clues, not the researcher. The methodological basis of the work is a biographical approach and narrative analysis. With the help of non-heterosexual clues found in the past, participants simultaneously confirm the sustainability of their sexuality and connect elements of their biography into an orderly story. A coherent biographical narrative allows them to normalize their non-heterosexuality by offering an explanation and background to it. At the same time, it is built on opposition to the heterosexual norm.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-56-188-198
E. Rudneva
The book presents results of longitudinal fieldwork in the Alpine region on the border of France, Italy and Switzerland, called “the country around Mont Blanc” by the locals and “Arpitania” by political activists. The study is based on rich data including field notes, observations, interview notes, as well as a variety of texts collected by the author. The book convincingly demonstrates how, as a result of socio-cultural processes—as well as political and scientific projects—a group of idioms begins to be recognized as a language—Francoprovençal, or Arpitan. The study was carried out in the spirit of critical ethnographic sociolinguistics, which involves the critical analysis of collected field data as well as of the researcher’s position. The analysis of a specific multilingual situation implements this approach (for the first time in Russian), as well as other contemporary approaches, such as critical analysis of discourse, historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and models of nation and cross-border communities. The book thus can be used as a textbook and become an inspiration for sociolinguistic and anthropological research of any community.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-58-319-328
Olga Yashchenko
A monograph by medical anthropologist Christina Weis, researcher at the Center for Reproductive Research at De Montfort University (United Kingdom), published in the Emerald Studies In Reproduction, Culture and Society series, is devoted to commercial surrogacy in contemporary Russia. This ethnographic study, based on extensive and diverse fieldwork, includes the author’s reflections, methodological decisions, emotions, and difficulties that accompanied her in the process of data collection. The author shows that surrogacy relationships in Russia are constructed as purely economic, in which social hierarchies are reproduced. Surrogacy is associated with physical and emotional work performed by women and putting their lives at risk.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2023-19-58-305-318
Anna Lazareva
The collection of articles under review proposes new approaches and directions for the anthropological study of dreams. In articles devoted to the analysis of the dream plots of representatives of different social, ethnic, and gender groups in Europe and the United States (Germans, American women, national minorities and immigrants), the authors emphasized the connection between personal concerns and the problems of society as a whole (violence, inequality, hypocrisy). In societies labeled as “dream cultures” (the Asabano of New Guinea, the Tzotzil Maya of Mexico) and religious groups (the Tibetan Buddhists, the Muslims of Egypt), dreams are perceived as a special reality in which the dreamer interacts with deities, spirits and other people (so that dreams can be described as a “shadow society” influencing social relationships in waking life). Exploring these cultures, the authors raise questions of how dreams and their discussion form religious ideas (by validating or disproving religious concepts), change statuses and social roles of dreamers. The study of cultures through the prism of dream images allowed authors to see in them something unobservable and inaccessible to other methods of research (hidden conflicts, contradictions, and the potential for social change).
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.31250/1815-8870-2022-18-55-342-354
Gleb Stukalin
The new collection, edited by Anna Bigelow, expands the methodology of the material approach to religion through the authors’ close look at various aspects of Muslim life. Under the cover one can find articles by researchers of substantial expertise in their fields. Each article represents a statement on a separate topic (be it history, architecture, numismatics, art history, environmental studies, etc.). The works highlight both examples from the very heart of the Muslim world (Mecca), as well as cases that are considered to be peripheral or even marginal (historic Granada, Upper Volta, the American Nation of Islam). Given such large gaps between the topics of the articles in the collection, one may conclude that material religion as a separate field of knowledge is still at the stage of formation. The review draws a disappointing conclusion that the authors’ interdisciplinary approach comes to a standstill, since the collection does not set a general framework and concepts. Referring to Ibn Arabi, the editor proclaims maximum freedom in choosing a research topic (“any subject is Islamic insofar as it is embodied by the force of the knowledge of the Creator”). Thus, materials on Indian talismans, Yemeni coins, American pins, and the Granada water system are collected under one cover—and all these topics still pretend to be united by the frame of religion.
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