E-mail: ethno@list.ru Tel.: +7 (495) 938-00-19
32a, Leninskii av., Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation
PhD in History, Junior Research Fellow, Department of the North and Siberia, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
The article was prepared within the framework of the SSC RAS project No. 22–2–010603, “The Cultural and Ethnographic Film Expedition “Children of the Sun.”
This article is devoted to the ethnography, folklore, language, traditional worldview, and value system of two indigenous peoples of Taymyr — the Nganasans and Enets. The main source for the research is materials of the Taymyr expedition organized in 2022 by the television channel “Culture” for filming documentaries about these peoples for the series “Land of People”. During the expedition, interviews were conducted with local residents of different generations who consider themselves Nganasans or Enets in the villages of Ust-Avame and Potapovo, as well as in Dudinka. Various fragments of ethnic practices in modern interiors and landscapes were recorded. The article features the author’s observations and conclusions based the information obtained during the expedition, his own field data, previous research, and introduces a significant amount of new ethnographic material.
Gracheva G. N. (1980) K materialam po dukhovnoi kul’ture nganasan i entsev [To the Materials on the Spiritual Culture of the Nganasans and Enets]. In: Dukhovnaya kul’tura narodov Sibiri [The Spiritual Culture of the Peoples of Siberia]. Tomsk: TGU. Pp. 80–94. In Russian.
Gracheva G. N. (1983) Traditsionnoe mirovozzrenie okhotnikov Taimyra [The Traditional Worldview of Hunters in Taymyr]. Leningrad: Nauka. In Russian.
Popov A. A. (1984) Nganasany. Sotsial’naya sistema i verovaniya [The Nganasans: Social System and Beliefs]. Leningrad: Nauka. In Russian.
Simchenko Yu. B. (1992) Nganasany. Sistema zhizneobespecheniya [The Nganasans: Life Support System]. Moscow. In Russian.
Simchenko Yu. B. (1996) Traditsionnye verovaniya nganasan[The Traditional Beliefs of the Nganasans]. Vol. 2. Moscow: Institut etnografii i antropologii im. N. N. Miklukho-Maklaya RAN. In Russian.
Yaptik E. S. (2018) Retsiproknye otnosheniya v nenetskoi sem’e [Reciprocal Relationships in a Nenets Family]. In: Sem’ya i semeinye tsennosti v sovremennom mire: Mater. Vseros. ochno-zaochnogo nauch.-prakt. seminara s mezhdunar. uchastiem [The Family and Family Values in the Modern World: Materials of the All-Russian Full-Time and Part-Time Scholarly and Practical Seminar with International Participation]. Vol. 2. Pp. 447–455. In Russian.
Pluzhnikov N. V. The Nganasans and Enets: An Essay Based on the Results of a Film Expedition. Traditional Culture. 2023. Vol. 24. No. 4. Pp. 137–152. In Russian.