Narrative Objects: The Sakha Summer Festival and Cultural Revitalization

叙事对象：萨哈夏季节与文化复兴

• 批准号: AH/M000265/1
• 负责人: Alison Brown
• 金额: $ 56.72万
• 依托单位: University of Aberdeen
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM000265%2F1
• 关键词: Narrative; Objects; Sakha; Summer; Festival

This project will investigate the ways in which historic artefacts are tools for contemplating the past, for remembering collective practices of ethnic identity, and for contributing to cultural revitalization processes, particularly in areas that have experienced political and ceremonial suppression. The regional focus is the Sakha Republic (Yakutiia), Russian Federation, and the centrepiece of the project is a unique mammoth ivory model of ysyakh, the summer festival of the Sakha (Yakut) people, which has been in the collection of project partner, the British Museum (BM), since 1867. During the Soviet era, many Sakha cultural expressions, including ysyakh, were suppressed. Since the 1990s, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, cultural revitalization and attempts to establish political autonomy have generated considerable interest in these expressions and in the intersection of their historic and contemporary forms. Accessing Sakha historic artefacts, now scattered in museums worldwide, is key to these processes. While considerable work has been done in North America to link museum collections with descendent communities, there is virtually no scholarship regarding such projects in Russia. This project will thus be a model for developing inter-cultural relations between museums in the Russian Federation and beyond, and will contribute to better understanding cultural movements in post-Soviet states more broadly. "Model of a Summer Camp" depicts a scene from ysyakh and is the earliest known representation of this festival. Although it is regarded as a quintessentially Sakha work, few Sakha people have engaged directly with the model and it is not normally on public display. Through the exhibition of the model in project partner, the National Arts Museum of the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk, timed to coincide with the ysyakh celebrations of 2015, and associated archival and ethnographic research to explore its historical and contemporary relevance, we will:- explore the silencing of cultural memory during times of ideological oppression;- investigate the capacity of historic artefacts to support cultural revitalization;- examine the articulation of historic artefacts, cultural memory, narratives and silence and to ask how it might inform contemporary museum practice; - contribute to the professional development of museum colleagues in Russia and the UK through the exchange of curatorial expertise;- disseminate our research through a range of formats, e.g., scholarly and popular publications, conference presentations, two exhibitions, and a project website with educational resources in English, Russian and Sakha;- promote and strengthen relations between the UK and the Russian Federation through the first collaborative project involving cultural institutions in Britain and the Russian North.This project will engage stakeholders in the Sakha Republic, the UK, and internationally. The project team (Dr. Alison Brown, Dr. Tatiana Argounova-Low, and a postdoctoral Research Assistant) will work directly with contemporary artists utilising Sakha traditional forms, cultural practitioners, and ysyakh celebrants. Our research methods include archival research, artefact analysis, interviews, participation in ysyakh events, and observation and discussion of arts practices. The project's main societal impacts will be in the areas of culture and well-being. It also has the potential to influence museum practice. Beneficiaries include school, college and university students; artists; museum professionals; scholars in disciplines such as Anthropology, Museum Studies, Visual Culture, and History; the wider public with interests in other cultures and their artistic and ceremonial traditions.

该项目将调查历史文物如何成为思考过去、记住民族特性的集体做法和促进文化振兴进程的工具，特别是在经历过政治和仪式压制的地区。该区域的重点是俄罗斯联邦萨哈共和国（雅库特），该项目的核心是一个独特的猛犸象牙模型ysyakh，萨哈（雅库特）人的夏季节日，自1867年以来一直在项目合作伙伴大英博物馆（BM）的收藏中。在苏联时期，许多萨哈文化表现形式，包括ysyakh，被压制。自1990年代和苏联解体以来，文化振兴和建立政治自治的努力引起了人们对这些表达方式及其历史和当代形式的交叉的极大兴趣。萨哈历史文物，现在分散在世界各地的博物馆，是这些过程的关键。虽然在北美已经做了大量的工作，将博物馆收藏与后代社区联系起来，但在俄罗斯几乎没有关于此类项目的奖学金。因此，该项目将成为俄罗斯联邦内外博物馆之间发展文化间关系的典范，并将有助于更广泛地了解后苏联国家的文化运动。“夏令营模型”描绘了一个来自伊萨赫的场景，是这个节日已知的最早的代表。虽然它被认为是典型的萨哈作品，但很少有萨哈人直接接触过这个模型，而且它通常不会公开展出。通过在项目合作伙伴，萨哈共和国国家艺术博物馆，雅库茨克，定时与2015年的ysyakh庆祝活动相吻合的模型的展览，以及相关的档案和人种学研究，以探索其历史和当代的相关性，我们将：-探索在意识形态压迫时期文化记忆的沉默;-调查历史文物的能力，以支持文化振兴;- 研究历史文物，文化记忆，叙事和沉默的表达，并询问它如何为当代博物馆实践提供信息; -通过交流策展专业知识，为俄罗斯和英国博物馆同事的专业发展做出贡献;-通过一系列形式传播我们的研究，例如，学术和大众出版物、会议报告、两个展览和一个项目网站，提供英语、俄语和萨哈语的教育资源;-通过第一个涉及英国和俄罗斯北部文化机构的合作项目，促进和加强英国和俄罗斯联邦之间的关系。该项目将吸引萨哈共和国、英国和国际上的利益相关者。项目团队（Alison Brown博士，Tatiana Argounova-Low博士和博士后研究助理）将直接与利用萨哈传统形式的当代艺术家，文化从业者和ysyakh庆祝者合作。我们的研究方法包括档案研究，人工制品分析，访谈，参与ysyakh事件，观察和艺术实践的讨论。该项目的主要社会影响将在文化和福祉领域。它也有可能影响博物馆的实践。受益者包括学校、学院和大学学生;艺术家;博物馆专业人员;人类学、博物馆研究、视觉文化和历史等学科的学者;对其他文化及其艺术和仪式传统感兴趣的广大公众。

项目成果

The Siberian World

西伯利亚世界

• DOI: 10.4324/9780429354663-18
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Peers E

Sensing the Life of Material Mammoth Ivory and Craftsmen's Work

感受猛犸象牙材料的生命和工匠的作品

• DOI: 10.3167/sib.2023.220301
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Sibirica
• 影响因子: 0.2
• 作者: Argounova-Low T

What’s in a Model? Shifting Multispecies Relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)

模型中的内容是什么？萨哈（雅库特）的多物种关系的变化

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Lagoonscapes
• 作者: E. Peers

Festival Celebrations

节日庆典

• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: The British Museum Magazine
• 作者: Tanya Argounova-Low

Arctic: Culture and Climate

北极：文化与气候

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Tatiana Argounova-Low