Professor, Department of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Russia
Octobre 2012 à juin 2013
Professor Bulgakova was born in Khabarovsk close to Nanay settlements, which determined her interest in their culture. In 1980 she started fieldwork among the Nanay. In 1980-1985 she was a post graduate student in the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography in Leningrad and in 1985 she completed her first (candidate) PhD dissertation. Since 1986 and till now she has been teaching Folklore, Ethnography of the peoples of the North and Social and Cultural Anthropology in Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. In 2001 she completed her second (doctorate) PhD on socio-religious aspects of Nanay culture.
"Social Outcome of Shamanic Human-Spiritual Exchange: Nanay Case Study"
Relying on Nanay case field study (1980-2010), I interpret human-spiritual exchange as a central governing zone of shamanic praxis, which results in societal differentiation/stratification and underlines conflation of spiritual (shamanism) and social (clannishness) domains. I examine its steady components and regularities, which are found both in traditional kinship-oriented society, and in contemporary economically oriented one. It gives me opportunity to investigate not only traditional shamanic human-spiritual exchange as such, but also its embedding into the wider system of socio-economic exchange and its adapting for the religious and ideological change within the market economy environment in the course of contemporary indigenous renaissance in Siberia.