Digital Library

Through the Digital Library, the Foundation for Siberian Cultures makes its own publications and other documents available on the Internet free of charge. This is intended to facilitate access to research findings and ethnographic materials for as many user groups as possible. The Open Access claim expressed with the Digital Library goes back to the web domain www.siberian-studies.org, which was set up by Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr in 2004. As a rule, the Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) governs use of the digital content.

Items on

  • Arts and crafts
  • Cultural heritage
  • Digital media
  • Endangered languages
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnographic research in Northeastern Siberia in the 18th and 19th centuries
  • Ethnological research in Northeastern Siberia at the turn of the 20th century
  • Fishing
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Indigenous motifs in artistic discourse
  • Shamans
  • Social and cultural Anthropology
  • Sustainable use of the environment
  • Sustaining Indigenous knowledge and endangered languages
  • The art of dance and singing
  • The art of painting
  • Worldviews and rituals

Arts and crafts

Математические основы при изготовлении одежды и в прикладном искусстве коряков

Математические основы при изготовлении одежды и в прикладном искусстве коряков

[Mathematical concepts in the manufacture of clothing and in the applied art of Koryaks: ways to use traditional knowledge in the indigenous curriculum of schools in Kamchatka]. Сибирский сборник – 4: Грани социального: Антропологические перспективы исследования социальных отношений и культуры. СПб.,: В. Н. Давыдов, Д. В. Арзютов, (отв. редактор), 96–113 Издательство: МАЭ РАН.

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Cultural heritage

Culture as Property: Returning Knowledge to Native Communities

Culture as Property: Returning Knowledge to Native Communities

First published in Property Relations: the Halle Focus Group 2000-2005, edited by Chris Hann 2005, 54-57. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Аудиовизуальная культура и аудиовизуальные коллекции

Аудиовизуальная культура и аудиовизуальные коллекции

[Audiovisual culture and audiovisual collections: Problems concerning the preservation of cultural heritage and intellectual property rights]. Lecture at the Fifth International Conference “Echolot – 2005”: Audiovisual Heritage. M.L. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow. (in Russian)

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Challenges and Approaches to Maintaining Cultural Diversity in the Russian Far East

Challenges and Approaches to Maintaining Cultural Diversity in the Russian Far East

Proceedings of the 30th International Abashiri Symposium, Sapporo, 1–8.

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Sharing Cultural Concepts and Practices in Siberia through Advanced Digitisation

Sharing Cultural Concepts and Practices in Siberia through Advanced Digitisation

The Proceedings of the 33rd International Abashiri Symposium, edited by Hokkaido Museum of Northern peoples, 1-8. Abashiri: The Association for the Promotion of Northern Cultures.

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Der deutsche Beitrag zur Erforschung und zum Erhalt indigener Kulturen in Sibirien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Der deutsche Beitrag zur Erforschung und zum Erhalt indigener Kulturen in Sibirien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

[The German contribution to the research and preservation of indigenous cultures in Siberia in past and present]. Lecture on the 25th Anniversary of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Novosibirsk by Dr. Erich Kasten (Foundation for Siberian Cultures) on 10 December 2019. Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Digital media

Аудиовизуальная культура и аудиовизуальные коллекции

Аудиовизуальная культура и аудиовизуальные коллекции

[Audiovisual culture and audiovisual collections: Problems concerning the preservation of cultural heritage and intellectual property rights]. Lecture at the Fifth International Conference “Echolot – 2005”: Audiovisual Heritage. M.L. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow. (in Russian)

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Sharing Cultural Concepts and Practices in Siberia through Advanced Digitisation

Sharing Cultural Concepts and Practices in Siberia through Advanced Digitisation

The Proceedings of the 33rd International Abashiri Symposium, edited by Hokkaido Museum of Northern peoples, 1-8. Abashiri: The Association for the Promotion of Northern Cultures.

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Методические пособия по сохранению и развитию языков народов Камчатки в Интернете

Методические пособия по сохранению и развитию языков народов Камчатки в Интернете

[Learning tools on the preservation and development of languages of Kamchatka peoples on the Internet]. Presentation at the Institute of Humanitarian Studies and Problems of Small Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, December 12, 2019. Сохранение и развитие родных языков и культуры коренных малочисленных народов Севера, проживающих на территории Камчатского края: проблемы и пути решения. Сборник материалов международной научно- практической конференцииг. Петропавловск-Камчатский, 6.-7. ноября 2019 года. Часть 1, Под общей редакцией А. И. Волкова, 127–139. Петропавловск-Камчатский. Камчатский ИРО. — Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Digitised Cultural Knowledge in Kamchatka: Digital Impact on Native Communities

Digitised Cultural Knowledge in Kamchatka: Digital Impact on Native Communities

i4D Information for Development (Noida, India) 2(11) 2004, 7–10.

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Endangered languages

Map of the distribution of the Sami languages

Map of the distribution of the Sami languages
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Itelmen Language and Culture

Itelmen Language and Culture

Contribution to the UNESCO REGISTER OF GOOD PRACTICES IN LANGUAGE PRESERVATION. Received: fall 2005; last update: spring 2008.

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Nanai – Maßnahmen zum Erhalt einer bedrohten Sprache im fernen Osten Russlands

Nanai – Maßnahmen zum Erhalt einer bedrohten Sprache im fernen Osten Russlands

[Nanai – Measures to preserve an endangered language in the Russian Far East]. Report on the project by the Foundation for Siberian Cultures under the direction of Erich Kasten with Tatiana Bulgakova (Herzen-Institut, St. Petersburg) and Michael Dürr (Freie Universität Berlin). With the support of the Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen e.V.

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Bedrohung für Sprachen und lokales Wissen im Osten Sibiriens

Bedrohung für Sprachen und lokales Wissen im Osten Sibiriens

[Endangering languages and local knowledge in Eastern Siberia]. Bedrohte Völker, GfbV Wien, Nr. 4. Dezember 2011: 32

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Ethnicity

Culture as Property: Returning Knowledge to Native Communities

Culture as Property: Returning Knowledge to Native Communities

First published in Property Relations: the Halle Focus Group 2000-2005, edited by Chris Hann 2005, 54-57. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Аудиовизуальная культура и аудиовизуальные коллекции

Аудиовизуальная культура и аудиовизуальные коллекции

[Audiovisual culture and audiovisual collections: Problems concerning the preservation of cultural heritage and intellectual property rights]. Lecture at the Fifth International Conference “Echolot – 2005”: Audiovisual Heritage. M.L. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow. (in Russian)

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Shifting Identities in Changing Social and Political Environments

Shifting Identities in Changing Social and Political Environments

Review on Siberian Studies at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Sayana Namsaraeva, Nima (eds.), 177–211. Peking: Mingzuchubanshe (Ethnic Publishing House), in Chinese language.

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Ethnographic research in Northeastern Siberia in the 18th and 19th centuries

Der deutsche Beitrag zur Erforschung und zum Erhalt indigener Kulturen in Sibirien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Der deutsche Beitrag zur Erforschung und zum Erhalt indigener Kulturen in Sibirien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

[The German contribution to the research and preservation of indigenous cultures in Siberia in past and present]. Lecture on the 25th Anniversary of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Novosibirsk by Dr. Erich Kasten (Foundation for Siberian Cultures) on 10 December 2019. Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Иоганн Карл Эренфрид Кегель Высказывания немецкого агронома о местном начальстве и политике развития Камчатки в середине XIX века

Иоганн Карл Эренфрид Кегель Высказывания немецкого агронома о местном начальстве и политике развития Камчатки в середине XIX века

[Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel Comments of a German agronomist on local government and development policy of Kamchatka in the middle of XIX century]. О Камчатке и странах, которые в соседстве с нею находятся, XXVIII Крашенинниковских чтений, Б.С. Иванова (отв. за выпуск), 91–94. Петропавловск-Камчатский. Electronic edition for www.siberian-studies.org

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Адельберт вон Шамиссо и Отто вон Коцебу: впечатления и научно-исследовательские итоги пребывания на Камчатке

Адельберт вон Шамиссо и Отто вон Коцебу: впечатления и научно-исследовательские итоги пребывания на Камчатке

[Adelbert von Chamisso and Otto von Kotzebue: Impressions and research results of a stay in Kamchatka]. Пятые Международные исторические и свято-иннокентьевские чтения, 139–142. Петроповловск-Камчатский: Камчатская краевая научная библиотека им. С.П. Крашенинникова. Electronic edition for www.siberian-studies.org

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Ethnological research in Northeastern Siberia at the turn of the 20th century

В.И. Иохельсон и сибиряковская экспедиция (1894–1897)

В.И. Иохельсон и сибиряковская экспедиция (1894–1897)

[V.I. Jochelson and the Siberian expedition,1894-1897]. Крашенинниковские чтения. Петроповловск-Камчатский: Камчатская краевая научная библиотека им. С.П. Крашенинникова. 2017, S. 155–160. Electronic edition for www.siberian-studies.org

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Waldemar Jochelson – His Life and Work in Light of Newly Accessible Sources

Waldemar Jochelson – His Life and Work in Light of Newly Accessible Sources

Anthropos 117.2022:191-194

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Fishing

Koryak Salmon Fishery: Remembrances of the Past, Perspectives for the Future.

Koryak Salmon Fishery: Remembrances of the Past, Perspectives for the Future.

Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific. Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks (eds.), 65–88. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.

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Indigenous knowledge

Математические основы при изготовлении одежды и в прикладном искусстве коряков

Математические основы при изготовлении одежды и в прикладном искусстве коряков

[Mathematical concepts in the manufacture of clothing and in the applied art of Koryaks: ways to use traditional knowledge in the indigenous curriculum of schools in Kamchatka]. Сибирский сборник – 4: Грани социального: Антропологические перспективы исследования социальных отношений и культуры. СПб.,: В. Н. Давыдов, Д. В. Арзютов, (отв. редактор), 96–113 Издательство: МАЭ РАН.

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Bedrohung für Sprachen und lokales Wissen im Osten Sibiriens

Bedrohung für Sprachen und lokales Wissen im Osten Sibiriens

[Endangering languages and local knowledge in Eastern Siberia]. Bedrohte Völker, GfbV Wien, Nr. 4. Dezember 2011: 32

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Indigenous motifs in artistic discourse

Schatz gefunden – auf der Fährte von Schulzes Kunstspur

Schatz gefunden – auf der Fährte von Schulzes Kunstspur

Treasure found - on the track of Schulze's art trail. Catalogue for the media art project "Treasure Hunt - Landscapes and Mythology of the Saami and their artistic implementation through new media", 2012. https://dh-north.org/dossiers/schatzsuche/de

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Shamans

Shamans of Siberia – Magicians, Intermediaries, Healers

Shamans of Siberia – Magicians, Intermediaries, Healers

On the exhibition "Schamanen Sibiriens" at the Linden State Museum of Ethnology, Stuttgart, Germany December 13, 2008 – June 28, 2009, in cooperation with the Russian Museum of Ethnography, Saint Petersburg. Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Die Natur als belebt betrachten

Die Natur als belebt betrachten

[Viewing nature as animated]. Damals (11/2008): 34–39.

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Social and cultural Anthropology

Culture as Property: Returning Knowledge to Native Communities

Culture as Property: Returning Knowledge to Native Communities

First published in Property Relations: the Halle Focus Group 2000-2005, edited by Chris Hann 2005, 54-57. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Challenges and Approaches to Maintaining Cultural Diversity in the Russian Far East

Challenges and Approaches to Maintaining Cultural Diversity in the Russian Far East

Proceedings of the 30th International Abashiri Symposium, Sapporo, 1–8.

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Sustainable use of the environment

Koryak Salmon Fishery: Remembrances of the Past, Perspectives for the Future.

Koryak Salmon Fishery: Remembrances of the Past, Perspectives for the Future.

Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific. Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks (eds.), 65–88. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.

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Sustaining Indigenous knowledge and endangered languages

Itelmen Language and Culture

Itelmen Language and Culture

Contribution to the UNESCO REGISTER OF GOOD PRACTICES IN LANGUAGE PRESERVATION. Received: fall 2005; last update: spring 2008.

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Nanai – Maßnahmen zum Erhalt einer bedrohten Sprache im fernen Osten Russlands

Nanai – Maßnahmen zum Erhalt einer bedrohten Sprache im fernen Osten Russlands

[Nanai – Measures to preserve an endangered language in the Russian Far East]. Report on the project by the Foundation for Siberian Cultures under the direction of Erich Kasten with Tatiana Bulgakova (Herzen-Institut, St. Petersburg) and Michael Dürr (Freie Universität Berlin). With the support of the Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen e.V.

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Der deutsche Beitrag zur Erforschung und zum Erhalt indigener Kulturen in Sibirien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Der deutsche Beitrag zur Erforschung und zum Erhalt indigener Kulturen in Sibirien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

[The German contribution to the research and preservation of indigenous cultures in Siberia in past and present]. Lecture on the 25th Anniversary of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Novosibirsk by Dr. Erich Kasten (Foundation for Siberian Cultures) on 10 December 2019. Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Методические пособия по сохранению и развитию языков народов Камчатки в Интернете

Методические пособия по сохранению и развитию языков народов Камчатки в Интернете

[Learning tools on the preservation and development of languages of Kamchatka peoples on the Internet]. Presentation at the Institute of Humanitarian Studies and Problems of Small Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, December 12, 2019. Сохранение и развитие родных языков и культуры коренных малочисленных народов Севера, проживающих на территории Камчатского края: проблемы и пути решения. Сборник материалов международной научно- практической конференцииг. Петропавловск-Камчатский, 6.-7. ноября 2019 года. Часть 1, Под общей редакцией А. И. Волкова, 127–139. Петропавловск-Камчатский. Камчатский ИРО. — Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Wege des Erhalts von bedrohtem Kulturerbe für Jugendliche in Kamtschatka

Wege des Erhalts von bedrohtem Kulturerbe für Jugendliche in Kamtschatka

[Ways of preserving endangered cultural heritage for young people in Kamchatka]. Bildkalender der Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Völker, Dezember 2012, Wien.

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The art of dance and singing

Shkolnye gody

Shkolnye gody

"Shkolnye gody" (school years). During a tour In the summer of 2014, the youth dance ensemble "Shkolnye gody" (school years) from Kamchatka was a guest of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures. After that it had several performances in Northern Brandenburg as well as in the Museum of Ethnology in Munich. (German version)

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Школьные годы

Школьные годы

"Shkolnye gody" (school years). During a tour In the summer of 2014, the youth dance ensemble "Shkolnye gody" (school years) from Kamchatka was a guest of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures. After that it had several performances in Northern Brandenburg as well as in the Museum of Ethnology in Munich. (Russian version)

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Or'jakan – "kleines Rentier"

Or'jakan – "kleines Rentier"

Or'jakan - "little reindeer": dance and music of Siberian peoples from Kamchatka. From June 12 to July 6, 2009 the youth ensemble Or'jakan visited Germany and Switzerland together with four other dance and song artists from Kamchatka. They took part in international festivals, held workshops and cultural encounters with young people in schools and gave concerts at various cultural institutions.

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The art of painting

Schamanische Weltbilder in indigener Kunst im fernen Osten Russlands

Schamanische Weltbilder in indigener Kunst im fernen Osten Russlands

[Shamanic worldviews in indigenous art in the Russian Far East]. Kunst & Kontext 9/2015: 35–42. Schwabstedt.

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Worldviews and rituals

Shamans of Siberia – Magicians, Intermediaries, Healers

Shamans of Siberia – Magicians, Intermediaries, Healers

On the exhibition "Schamanen Sibiriens" at the Linden State Museum of Ethnology, Stuttgart, Germany December 13, 2008 – June 28, 2009, in cooperation with the Russian Museum of Ethnography, Saint Petersburg. Electronic edition for https://dh-north.org

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Die Trommel der Saami als Abbild von Weltbild und ritueller Praxis im Wandel

Die Trommel der Saami als Abbild von Weltbild und ritueller Praxis im Wandel

[The drum of the Saami as an expression of changing world views and ritual practice]. Musik-Welten. Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung. Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter Sonderveröffentlichung 3. Hermann Wiegand, Alfried Wieczorek, Claudia Braun, Michael Tellenbach (Hg.), 2011: 189–193. Mannhein: Verlag Regionalkultur.

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Schamanische Weltbilder in indigener Kunst im fernen Osten Russlands

Schamanische Weltbilder in indigener Kunst im fernen Osten Russlands

[Shamanic worldviews in indigenous art in the Russian Far East]. Kunst & Kontext 9/2015: 35–42. Schwabstedt.

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Versöhnungsfeste mit der Natur im Nordosten Sibiriens:„Ololo“und „Kilvej“ der Korjaken und Čukčen auf Kamtschatka

Versöhnungsfeste mit der Natur im Nordosten Sibiriens:„Ololo“und „Kilvej“ der Korjaken und Čukčen auf Kamtschatka

[Reconciliation feasts with nature in northeastern Siberia: "Ololo" and "Kilvej" of the Koryaks and Chukchi on Kamchatka]. Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte Bd. 38, 2017, S.103−122.

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Die Natur als belebt betrachten

Die Natur als belebt betrachten

[Viewing nature as animated]. Damals (11/2008): 34–39.

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