DOI: 10.31806/2542-1158-2021-5-1-141-144
УДК 397
Review on the paper by Е. Romanova and O. Dobjanskaya ««Les gens qui s’endorment pour l’hiver». Étude du chronotope mythopoétique: vers une anthropologie du froid»
Seredkina Natalia Nikolaevna
Siberian Federal University
Abstract. The article is a review of the paper by Yekaterina Nazarovna Romanova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Oksana Eduardovna Dobzhanskaya, Doctor of Arts, “Les gens qui s’endorment pour l’hiver”. Étude du chronotope mythopoétique: vers une anthropologie du froid. ” The article was published in 2020 in French in the book “Géocultures. Méthodologies russes sur l’Arctique “/” Geocultures. Russian methods of studying the Arctic”. The peer-reviewed article has important conceptual, methodological and empirical significance for research in the field of anthropology of cold and northern shamanism. On the basis of the three conceptual metaphors of cold identified by the authors (“People who fall asleep for the winter”, “Whisper of the stars and the cold breath of the Earth”, “Melting permafrost”), the logic of the presentation of the research material is built. It is these metaphors that serve as the structural sections of the article. Through the prism of analyzing the content of these metaphors, the authors show the multidimensionality of the image of cold, various sign-symbolic forms of its personification in different cultures of the North, as well as semantic connections with the ritual practices of the northern peoples, including the rituals of the shaman. The researchers focus on two models of cold perception. This is a cold perception model characteristic of the Yakut worldview and a cold perception model that exists in the worldview of the indigenous peoples of Taimyr – the Dolgans, Nenets, Nganasans, Evenks and Entsys. The source for the study was a wide corpus of various texts – historical, mythological, folklore and shamanic. The conceptual approach of the authors to the study of the image of cold makes a certain contribution to the understanding of the culture of northern peoples, in particular, northern shamanism. The results presented by the authors in the peerreviewed article will be of interest to scientists whose scientific interests are related to Arctic research, including the study of the concept of cold, northern shamanism, and the culture of indigenous and small peoples of the North of Siberia in general.
Keywords: anthropology of cold, chronotope, northern shamanism, North of Siberia, indigenous peoples of the North.
For citation: Середкина, Н. Н. Рецензия на статью Е. Н. Романовой и О. Э. Добжанской “Les gens qui s’endorment pour l’hiver”. étude du chronotope mythopoétique: vers une anthropologie du froid” / “Люди, засыпающие на зиму”. Исследование мифопоэтического хронотопа: к антропологии холода” / Н. Н. Середкина // Северные Архивы и Экспедиции. – 2021. – Т. 5, № 1. – С. 141-144. – DOI 10.31806/2542-1158-2021-5-1-141-144. – EDN KRFZQE.
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