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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">33926</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2023-23-1-26-39</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Theory, Methodology and History of Sociological Research</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Вопросы истории, теории и методологии</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Воспроизводство и изменение дискурсов культуры коренных народов: этнографические самоописания кольских саамов</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kuropjatnik</surname><given-names>M. S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Куропятник</surname><given-names>Марина Степановна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор социологических наук, заведующая кафедрой культурной антропологии и этнической социологии</bio><email>kuropjatnik@bk.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Saint Petersburg State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-03-16" publication-format="electronic"><day>16</day><month>03</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 23, NO1 (2023)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 23, №1 (2023)</issue-title><fpage>26</fpage><lpage>39</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-03-16"><day>16</day><month>03</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Kuropjatnik M.S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Куропятник М.С.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kuropjatnik M.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Куропятник М.С.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/33926">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/33926</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article considers ethnographic self-descriptions as a cultural form in which indigenous authors conceptualise their culture in the shifting social contexts. Ethnographic selfdescriptions present (a) the transformation of the oral-discursive practices of indigenous culture into text; (b) the interpretation of the scientific versions of culture by indigenous authors. The author focuses on how Sámi culture is conceptualized in the text and as the written text by Sámi authors, taking into account the scientific descriptions of their culture and non-discursive cultural forms (such as ethnographic collections). In the texts of indigenous authors, anthropological versions of culture become a source for reproducing some patterns of culture’s conceptualization as relevant to a particular tradition in social sciences. Thus, ethnographic self-descriptions are interpreted in terms of intertextuality with an emphasis on relations between oral and written discourse, academic and indigenous discourse, discursive and non-discursive practices. Texts as a part of cultural reality or as elements of social events have causal effects which contribute to changes in the perception of Sámi culture and in the ways it is represented in the indigenous perspective, i.e., texts participate in the reproduction, creation and modification of numerous discourses on the Kola Sámi culture. In the ethnographic self-description of many Kola Sámi, ‘culture’ can be recontextualized by actors. Moreover, positions and identity of the observer (the author) and the observed (indigenous people) are partly connected, which implies a change in the epistemological status of the indigenous discourse. The processual approach to the cultural conceptualization and the focus on indigenous insights presented in the ethnographic self-descriptions constitute the methodological basis for examining some contemporary cultural trends of the Kola Sámi (Russia). The author analyses the published texts of the contemporary Kola Sámi authors, who are not professional anthropologists.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В статье этнографическое самоописание рассматривается как культурная форма, в которой индигенные авторы концептуализируют свою культуру в смещающихся социальных контекстах. Этнографические самоописания подразумевают: (а) трансформацию коренными народами устно-дискурсивного опыта своей культуры в текст; (б) интерпретации научных версий культуры индигенными авторами. Вопрос заключается в том, как саамская культура концептуализируется в тексте и как письменный текст - саамскими авторами, принимающими во внимание как научные описания своей культуры, так и недискурсивные культурные формы (этнографические коллекции)? В текстах индигенных авторов антропологические версии культуры могут выступать источником воспроизводства некоторых паттернов концептуализации их культуры, релевантных ряду подходов в социальных науках. Этнографические самоописания интерпретируются автором в терминах интертекстуальности, при этом в фокусе внимания - отношения между устным и письменным, академическим и индигенным дискурсом, а также между дискурсивными и недискурсивными практиками. Тексты как часть культурной реальности и как элемент социальных событий имеют каузальный эффект, способствуя изменению видения и способов репрезентации саамской культуры с точки зрения коренных народов. Таким образом, они вовлечены в воспроизводство, создание и модификацию множественных дискурсов саамской культуры. В процессе самоописания «культура» может быть реконтекстуализирована акторами. При этом позиции и идентичность наблюдателя (автора) и коренного народа, чья культура выступает объектом описания, связаны множественными частичными отношениями, что подразумевает изменение эпистемологического статуса индигенного дискурса. Процессуальный подход к концептуализации культуры и фокус на точке зрения коренных народов, представленной в этнографических самоописаниях, составляют методологическую основу изучения ряда культурных тенденций у кольских саамов (Россия). В статье анализируются опубликованные тексты саамских авторов, не являющихся профессиональными антропологами.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>indigenous culture</kwd><kwd>Kola Sámi</kwd><kwd>discourse</kwd><kwd>ethnographic self-description</kwd><kwd>text</kwd><kwd>partial connections</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>культура коренных народов</kwd><kwd>кольские саамы</kwd><kwd>дискурс</kwd><kwd>этнографическое самоописание</kwd><kwd>текст</kwd><kwd>частичные отношения</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Afanaseva N. The current state of the Sámi language. Saprykin V.P., Smirnova L.M. (Eds.). Indigenous Peoples of the European Arctic Region. Murmansk; 2012. (In Russ.).</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Afanasieva A. Boarding School Education of the Sámi People in Soviet Union (1935-1989): Experiences of Three Generations. 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