Absorbing the Asian Frontier: Food and food-related knowledge in seventeenth and eighteenth century Siberia

吸收亚洲前沿：十七世纪和十八世纪西伯利亚的食品和食品相关知识

• 批准号: 457841600
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Julia Herzberg
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/457841600?language=en
• 关键词: Absorbing; Asian; Frontier; Food; food

The project investigates the role that food and food-related practices, knowledge and beliefs played in the process of exploration of Siberia and its incorporation into the Muscovy and the Russian Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The main goal is to examine how food determined the ways the indigenous population and the frontier society of Siberia (Cossacks, merchants, missionaries, settlers, administrators, exiles, as well as Russian and foreign scientists and travelers) interacted, influenced and perceived each other. The research investigates the thesis that food, as well as the complex of practices and theories surrounding it, were of great importance for the exploration and administration of Siberia, both facilitating and complicating these processes. By studying how food functioned (religiously, politically, culturally and intellectually) as both a tool for and a hindrance to Siberian integration into Muscovy and the Russian Empire the project can offer a new perspective on successes and failures of these campaigns and provide a deeper understanding of a subtle, yet very physical aspect of the transcultural communication between Siberian locals and non-Siberian foreigners. Until today food has been largely overlooked in the historical studies on the region. The proposed project aims to fill this research gap. The study is based on historical sources consisting mainly of chronicles, legal documents such as local administrative reports, personal accounts, studies and artefacts from trade and scientific expeditions to Siberia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is complemented by contemporary writings on medicine, ethnography, religion, and political theory. The analysis of all types of sources will be guided by the theory of entangled history, which will help see historical actors not as static and unchanging, but rather mutually transforming each other through their interactions. This theory will also help address the underlying questions of transfers and transformations of eating practices, knowledge and beliefs. Additionally, comparative methods and discourse analysis will be applied to study how the practices, attitudes, and discourses connected with food changed in the span of the two centuries. The project contributes to a new understanding of the familiar history of Siberia by viewing it through a different lens. While studying the transformations, transfers and mutual influences that food provoked on both sides of the transcultural dialogue, the project shows how the incorporation of Siberia into the Muscovy and the Russian Empire and its scientific exploration was a bidirectional process which affected not only the Siberian indigenous peoples, but also those who strove to understand, subdue and transform them.

该项目调查了食物和与食物有关的做法、知识和信仰在西伯利亚探索过程中发挥的作用，以及在十七和十八世纪将其纳入莫斯科和俄罗斯帝国。主要目的是研究食物如何决定土著居民和西伯利亚边疆社会（哥萨克人，商人，传教士，定居者，管理者，流亡者，以及俄罗斯和外国科学家和旅行者）的互动方式，相互影响和感知。本研究调查了这样一个论点，即食物以及围绕它的实践和理论的复杂性对西伯利亚的勘探和管理非常重要，既促进了这些过程，又使这些过程复杂化。通过研究食物如何（在宗教、政治、文化和智力上）作为西伯利亚融入莫斯科和俄罗斯帝国的工具和障碍，该项目可以为这些运动的成功和失败提供一个新的视角，并更深入地了解西伯利亚当地人和非西伯利亚外国人之间跨文化交流的微妙但非常实际的方面。直到今天，在该地区的历史研究中，食物在很大程度上被忽视了。该项目旨在填补这一研究空白。 这项研究以历史资料为基础，主要包括编年史、地方行政报告等法律的文件、个人账户、十七世纪和十八世纪西伯利亚贸易和科学考察的研究和文物。当代医学、人种学、宗教和政治理论的著作对此进行了补充。 对所有类型的来源的分析将以纠缠历史理论为指导，这将有助于将历史行为者视为不是静态和不变的，而是通过相互作用相互转化。这一理论还将有助于解决饮食习惯、知识和信仰的转移和转变的根本问题。此外，比较的方法和话语分析将被应用于研究如何的做法，态度，和话语与食品有关的变化，在两个世纪的跨度。 该项目有助于通过不同的透镜来重新理解熟悉的西伯利亚历史。在研究食物在跨文化对话双方引发的转变、转移和相互影响的同时，该项目展示了西伯利亚并入莫斯科和俄罗斯帝国及其科学探索是一个双向过程，不仅影响了西伯利亚土著人民，而且影响了那些努力理解、征服和改造他们的人。