RAI Research Seminar
Tuesday 22 July, 4.00-6.00pm (BST)
This is a hybrid event.
To join us in person at the RAI (Address):
https://SeminarMallyStelmaszyk.eventbrite.co.uk
To join us via Zoom, register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WUssDPyzRQWkFl1tAZEMBw
Thinking beyond the drum: climatic uncertainties and shamanic practice in Siberia
Dr Mally Stelmaszyk, Research Associate in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
In this presentation, I explore shamanic practice as engaged in navigating and responding to the ongoing climatic uncertainties in Far East Siberia. Introducing remote and digital fieldwork methods, I trace the way a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, Christian prayers and game playing to materialise fragile moments of porosity between different systems of noticing-knowing-doing. Focusing on the tensions that this process implies, the presentation offers reflections on uncertainty as a productive concept widening our understanding of resistance, protest and resilience in areas of enforced silence and neglect. The insights provide further an opportunity to think about conceptual models addressing cross-disciplinary commitments in relation to climate change and the place of shamanic thought and practice within them
