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Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 27

 

UTOPIAS, REALITIES, HERITAGES IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE 21st CENTURY

Nina Vlaskina

Institute of Social-Economic Research and Humanities of the Southern Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
41 Chekhov Str., Rostov-on-Don, Russia
nvlaskina()gmail.com

Denis Ermolin

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
denis.ermolin()gmail.com

Alexander A. Novik

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
St Petersburg State University
7–9 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
njual()mail.ru

Svetlana Ryzhakova

Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
32A Leninskiy Prospect, Moscow, Russia
lana()mega.ru

Irina Sedakova

Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
32A Leninskiy Prospect, Moscow, Russia
irina.a.sedakova()gmail.com

Abstract: This review sheds light on the XII Congress of the  Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) held June 21–25, 2015 in Zagreb (Croatia). One of the biggest humanitarian academic events, this Congress unites scholars in folklore and religion studies, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, and linguistics. The SIEF Congresses always scrutinise relevant contemporary themes and projects, determine the course of future research, and highlight the new issues in the field. Seventeen thematic blocks of the programme encompass almost all aspects of scientific analysis, methodological approaches, and technical tools for collecting and processing data. Besides discussions on the discipline’s long established topics (food, rituals, folk religiosity), and topics which have recently become particularly significant (identity, migrations, borders). New approaches towards the body, the political, civil and philanthropic activity and some others fields were also suggested.

Keywords: ethnography, folklore, utopia, reality, urban anthropology, performance, folk costume, identities, minorities, gender, borders, migration.

To cite: Vlaskina N., Ermolin D., Novik A., Ryzhakova S., Sedakova I., 'Utopii, realnost i kulturnoe nasledie v etnografii XXI v.' [Utopias, Realities, Heritages in the Ethnographies of the 21st Century], Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 27, pp. 251–273.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/027/congress_sief.pdf