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    Places of significance in Itelmen country: sacredness, nostalgia and identity in Kamchatka, Russia

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    Degai, Tatiana S.
    Keyword
    Itelmens
    Religion
    History
    Funeral customs and rites
    Russia
    Kamchatka Peninsula
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12785
    Abstract
    "This research was conducted among Itelmen people, a small indigenous group who live on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. The thesis explores places of significance and sacred places of Itelmens who traditionally occupied most of the peninsula. At present the majority live on the Western coast of Kamchatka on the Okhotsk Sea shore. Providing some historical background, outcomes of colonization and western presence, and description of contemporary Itelmen worldview, this study offers an overview of Itelmen concepts of perceiving, knowing, appreciating and "animating" places. These concepts are formed primarily on the basis of a sense of loss of the villages during the relocations of 1950s-60s, a sense of admiration of nature, a sense of respect of ancestral knowledge associated with their lands, a sense of fear and respect of the spirits inhabiting the places and other aspects of landscape animation. Through the examples of indigenous peoples' initiatives this thesis also provides the groundwork for demonstrating the usefulness of the study of places of significance and sacred sites as negotiations take place between Itelmens and the government over native lands"--Leaf iii
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    Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2009
    Table of Contents
    Introduction -- Field research -- Outline of the thesis -- 1. Theoretical background -- 2. Itelmen places of significance -- 3. A place of the state in the formation of sacred places in Kamchatka. New ideas of special and sacred -- 4. Symbolic places -- Conclusions -- List of abbreviations -- List of interviewees, fieldwork conducted in summer 2008 by Tatiana S. Degai on significant places of Itelmens -- List of additional interviews used -- References.
    Date
    2009-08
    Type
    Thesis
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