Медвежья обрядность Приполярья: обновляя мир посредством ритуала. Лекция профессора Эндрю Вигета

Лекция организована в рамках совместной инициативы Института этнологии и антропологии РАН и Нижегородского государственного университета им. Н.И. Лобачевского на базе Центра междисциплинарных антропологических и социокультурных исследований. “CIRCUMPOLAR BEAR CEREMONIALISM: RENEWING THE WORLD THROUGH RITUAL” The relationship between bears and humans is at the core of what are arguably some of the oldest forms of cultural activity. Throughout the circumpolar zone, the Bear is the principal other-than-human person, but across the North today bear ceremonial traditions have been threatened and in some cases extinguished. Since 2008 our work has been focused on the elaborate and highly developed bear ceremony of the Ob’-Ugrian Khanty and Mansi peoples of western Siberia for whom the situation was especially acute. Currently we are working with a grant from the US National Science Foundation to generate a broad, contemporary understanding of bear ceremony traditions across the North (see our site: ht