Living with Koryak Traditions

Living with Koryak Traditions
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9780803235090
ISBN-13 : 0803235097
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Book Synopsis Living with Koryak Traditions by : Alexander David King

Download or read book Living with Koryak Traditions written by Alexander David King and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a traditional Koryak in the modern world? How do indigenous Siberians express a culture that entails distinctive customs and traditions? For decades these people, who live on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia, have been in the middle of contradictory Soviet/Russian colonial policies that celebrate cultural and ethnic difference across Russia yet seek to erase those differences. Government institutions both impose state ideologies of culture and civilization and are sites of community revitalization for indigenous Siberians. ΓΈ In Living with Koryak Traditions, Alexander D. King reveals that, rather than having a single model of Koryak culture, Koryaks themselves are engaged in deep debates and conversations about what ?culture? and ?tradition? mean and how they are represented for native peoples, both locally and globally. To most Koryaks, tradition does not function simply as an identity marker but also helps to maintain moral communities and support vulnerable youth in dire times. Debunking an immutable view of tradition and culture, King presents a dynamic one that validates contemporary indigenous peoples? lived experience.


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