Indigenous Heritage in Siberia

Nadezhda Mamontova is British Academy Newton International Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Birmingham, UK.Dmitriy Oparin is a Researcher at the Université de Bordeaux - CNRS, France

• List of ContributorsPreface: The Birch Bark Mask from the Mansi Bear Ceremony: The Story behind the Cover Image, Stephan Dudeck (University of Tartu, Estonia)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Regimes of Indigenous Heritage in Siberia: Materiality, Power and Polyphony, Nadezhda Mamontova (University of Birmingham, UK) and Dmitriy Oparin (University of Bordeaux, France)Part One: Regimes of Heritage in Russia 1. On the Margins of Heritage Empire, Ekaterina Melnikova (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia)Part Two: Trajectories2. How to Deal with 'Material Culture'?: The Case of the Local Museums in Altai Republic, Denis Maslov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia)3. The Biographies of Entangled Humans and Non-humans: Nenets Reindeer Herders’ Relations with Power Objects, Laur Vallikivi (University of Tartu, Estonia)Part Three: Connections and Journeys4. Evenk Shamanic Objects and the Logic of Performance: Mimicking the Other in Museum Context, Nadezhda Mamontova (University of Birmingham, UK)5. The Journeys of the Nganasan Koika-Idols There and Back Again: Indigeneity, Ownership and Value in Heritage Production, Maria Mochalova (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)Part Four: Layers of Meanings 6. ‘You know that I can't walk without a Khanty dress’: Exploring the Meaning and Practice of Indigenous Clothing in Western Siberia, Stephan Dudeck (University of Tartu, Estonia) and Marija Launonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)7. The Fluid Nature of Ancestral Objects among the Asiatic Yupik: Heritage That Is Preserved and Destroyed, Hidden and Passed On, Dmitriy Oparin (University of Bordeaux, France) 8. ‘Sia”mei does not stick to plastic’: Modern Practices of Interaction with Sacred Impurity among the Yamal Nenets, Alexandra Terekhina (Arctic Research Station, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia) and Alexander Volkovitskiy (Arctic Research Station, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia) Part Five: Sovereignties 9. Felting Indigenous Sovereignty: The Political Ecology of Ritual Rugs in Siberian Altai, Dmitry Arzyutov (Ohio State University, USA)10. Museum Rituals: Contextualizing Buddhist Relics and Archaeological Human Remains in Two Siberian Museums, Ksenia Pimenova (Paris Nanterre University, France)Part Six: Representations11. Diversity of Attitudes towards the Nenets Sacred Objects in Western and Siberian Museums, Roza Laptander (University of Hamburg, Germany)12. Construction of Heritage: Categorizing, Showcasing and Renegotiating Nanai Objects in Regional Museums in the Russian Far East, Anne Dalles Maréchal (Jean Monnet University, France)Part Seven: Cosmologies13. Emplaced Power and Generation of Luck: The Use of Anthropomorphic Wooden Carvings by the Evenks of East Siberia and Russian Far East, Donatas Brandišauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)14. In the Presence of Power: The Bear’s Head in Khanty Cultural Practice, Andrew Wiget (New Mexico State University, USA) and Olga Balalaeva (Independent Researcher)Afterword: The Power of Objects: Critical Studies of the Indigenous Heritage in Other Circumpolar Areas, Gro Birgit Ween (University of Oslo, Norway)Index

Conversation and care are at the heart of this wonderful set of essays, taking up the objects that matter most to Indigenous worlds across North Asia, and brilliantly showing how people, spirits and animals circle around museum collections, private archives and everyday treasures – unseen by some, and everywhere to others.