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DSc in Philology, Head of the Folklore Division, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Professor, Teaching Scientific Center of Social Anthropology, Russian State University for the Humanities
The research was carried out within the framework of the Russian National Science Foundation, project No. 21–18–00495, “On the Frontier of Cultures: From Individual Biographies to the Historical Destinies of Ethnic Communities (Siberian Evenks and Indigenous Australians in the Conditions of Modernization).”
The article discusses the difference between well-established approaches in folklore and ethnology that use the “biographical method.” If in the study of oral literature researchers try to collect as much biographical information about the performers as possible, contemporary ethnographers “code” the data about the respondents. A special case is the work on the Evenks of North of Buryatia by A. S. Shubin, for whom the biographies of his respondents and the biographies of his fellow Evenks who had already passed away were used as an illustration of the changes in the traditional way of life that took place during the Soviet era.
Klyaus V. L., Kirilov N. V. (2021) V Zabaikal’skom krae i v Respublike Buryatiya. “Konnye tungusy”, “orocheny”, “evenki”: prezhde i teper’ [In the Trans-Baikal Territory and in the Republic of Buryatia. “Horse Tunguses,” “Orochens,” “Evenks”: Then and Now]. Novye rossiiskie gumanitarnye issledovaniya [New Russian Humanitarian Studies]. 2021. Vol. 16. URL: http://www. nrgumis.ru/articles/2172 (retrieved: 25.08.2022). In Russian.
Latkin A. G. (2007) Vechnoe kochev’e Aleksandra Shubina [The Eternal Roving of Alexander Shubin]. In: Shubin A. S. Evenki [Evenks]. Ulan-Ude: Respublikanskaya tipografiya. Pp. 5–11. In Russian.
Shubin A. S. (1973) Kratkii ocherk etnicheskoi istorii evenkov Zabaikal’ya. XVII–XX vv. [A Brief Sketch of the Ethnic History of the Transbaikalia Evenks. Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries]. Ulan-Ude: Buryatskoye knizhnoe izdatel’stvo. In Russian.
Klyaus V. L. Biographies of Evenks of Northern Buryatia (Based on the Materials of A. S. Shubin). Traditional Culture. 2022. Vol. 23. No. 4. Pp. 160–169. In Russian.