Native spirituality in (re)constructed personhood: observing and filming Yuri Vella
Liivo Niglas, Eva Toulouze
Kogalym-Lor – the lake where a man died
“Indigenous peoples and oil” events in Finland 1999
http://www.maanystavat.fi/oil/oileng/juri.htm
Speech in the seminar
Yuri Vella’s Worldview as a Tool for Survival: What Filming Reveals
Liivo Niglas, Eva Toulouze
Perceptions of Worldview – Pro ethnologia 17 – Tartu 2004 – 95-114
This article is an attempt to study one individual’s worldview. Studying cultures as such has arisen serious criticism by postmodernist authors, especially visual anthropologists, who emphasise the uniqueness of the individual’s experience and worldview (cf. MacDougall 1998). We shall develop our study according to two different approaches, one based on filming and the other completing the latter by data from traditional fieldwork. We have chosen to focus our analysis on a very peculiar personality, the Nenets poet, reindeer herder and social activist Yuri Vella.
Dispute between the famous Nenets poet and writer Yurii Kylevich Aivaseda (Vella) and the “Lukoil-Western Siberia” company in the Surgut area of the Hanty-Mansiiskii Autonomous Region
(Fall 2000)