Words and Silences

Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic

Laur Vallikivi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2024
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06876-7 (ISBN)

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Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization, but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent fundamentalist Christians.
By exploring differing concepts of how traditional and convert Nenets use and define words and of the meanings they ascribe to the withholding of speech, Laur Vallikivi shows how a local form of global Christianity has emerged through intricate negotiations of self, sociality, and cosmology.
Moving beyond studies of modernization and globalization that have all-too-predictable outcomes for indigenous peoples, Words and Silences invites us to view not only religious devotees, but words themselves, as agents of a complex and ongoing transformation.

Laur Vallikivi is Associate Professor at the Arctic Studies Centre and the Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu.

List of Maps and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Bible Citations
PART I: REINDEER NOMADS AND REFORMERS
Introduction
1. Dynamics of Avoidance and Engagement
PART II: CONVERSION OF PEOPLE, DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF SPIRITS
2. Trajectories of Conversion
3. Baptist Missionaries on the Edge
4. Destructive Persuasion
PART III: SPEAKING AND SILENCE
5. Silence and Binding Words
6. Speaking Saves, Silence Damns
7. Pure Subjects
Conclusion
Main Characters
Glossary of Selected Nenets and Russian Words
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	46 b&w illus., 3 maps
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-06876-2 / 0253068762
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06876-7 / 9780253068767
Zustand	Neuware