Alexandra Lavrillier

Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin | UVSQ · Centre Européen Arctique (CEARC)

This article studies common spiritual representations about contemporary Tungus-Manchu “shamanising persons”. It analyses ethnographic material gathered by the authors between 1994 and 2020 among the Evenki, Even, and Nanai of Yakutia, the Amur region, Kamchatka, Novorossiysk, and Khabarovskii krai, as well as the relevant scholarly literature. Und...

As with many Indigenous Peoples, the Siberian Evenki nomadic reindeer herders and hunters have observed increasing consequences of climate change on the cryosphere and biodiversity. Since 2017, they have observed previously unthinkable changes in topography. Based exclusively on an Evenki Indigenous Ecological Knowledge system-social anthropology c...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Siberian indigenous villagers and nomads have often struggled to find enough income to sustain themselves. Some natives think that ethno-tourism can be a source of income, but there is currently little tourism in Siberia. In the circumpolar Arctic, tourism is presented as a source of economic development. The...

This paper was co-written by Lavrillier (anthropologist) and Gabyshev (reindeer herder and co-researcher) on the basis of their field materials, with documentation and analysis of complex traditional environmental knowledge. After discussing the methodology of a community-based transdisciplinary observatory for monitoring the climate and environmen...

Visconti, P., Elias, V., Sousa Pinto, I., Fischer, M., Ali-Zade, V., Báldi, A., Brucet, S., Bukvareva, E., Byrne, K., Caplat, P., Feest, A., Guerra, C., Gozlan, R., Jelić, D., Kikvidze, Z., Lavrillier, A., Le Roux, X., Lipka, O., Petrík, P., Schatz, B., Smelansky, I. and Viard, F. (2018): Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversit...

Based on a field survey in the region of Kyzyl, the capital of the Tuva Republic (south Siberia), this article addresses the issue of the adaptation of some domestic cultural practices (originally pastoral) in urban areas. Indeed, some ancestral rites and beliefs are still in force in Tuva despite the settlement of populations, rapid change in life...

Living in close relationship with the Siberian environment, for several decades the Tungus (Evenk and Even peoples) have been noticing numerous changes in climate, flora and fauna. Based on fieldwork among reindeer herders, hunters and fishermen in Yakutia, the Amur region and Kamchatka, this paper explores how climate change is perceived, and how...

L'homme et l'animal unis à travers les âges

Introduction: This chapter focuses on the creation and development of a nomadic school among Evenk reindeer herders, paying special attention to ethical, political, social, and educational questions. It analyses the progression (pathway) from social anthropology to applied anthropology in language revitalization and examines the reasons revitalizat...

A historical event, internal to the society leads a group of Evenks that lives thanks to hunting and herding to modify a ritual of a main importance to them, by giving up the deposit of animal remains on aerial platforms on the edge of the encampments. These remains attract bear, the raids of which on the encampments took since three years quite bi...

The music of the Evenks is essentially composed of a capella songs, performed in solo or responsorial. The shaman accompanies his ritual chant with drum beating. Every song is for the Evenks a mean of ritual action. This article proposes a typology of Evenk music, based upon the analysis of around thirty songs and shamanic rituals. The refrains or...

The Evenks, previously known as Tungus, are essentially reindeer herders and hunters. They live in small groups scattered throughout Siberia and in the north of China. Since the first travelers, for whom they served as guides, the Evenks are well known in the literature for their remarkable sense of orientation; we owe them the first maps of Siberi...

Les Évenks oročon sont un peuple de Iakoutie (République Sakha) et de la région de l’Amour qui se conçoit comme partie intégrante de l’environnement naturel. Partiellement sédentarisés sous le régime soviétique, ils entrent aujourd’hui dans l’économie de marché. Ils se répartissent en trois types sociaux : les éleveurs de rennes et chasseurs nomade...

The Tsarist and Soviet politics have led to the almost total disappearance of shamans among the peoples of Siberia. In front of this situation, each people is adapting in a different way to continue to ritually act. The Yakuts and the Evenks have reinvented collective rituals, forbidden by the communist law. The Yakuts adopted new forms of shamanis...

The Evenk language counts around fifty dialects, every one being separated in many speeches and a written norm. The Evenk language received first a Latin alphabet, followed by a Cyrillic one. The conservation situation of the language varies according to the regions from 90% to 2% and seems directly linked with the percentage of the population that...

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