The Collections of Bear-Festival in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1)
“Bear Cult of the Kets ”
2013 Volume 22 Pages 63-82
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2013 Volume 22 Pages 63-82
The original paper was printed in the “Soviet Ethnography ”, 1960, No.4. pp. 90-104 (Reprinted in “Kunstkamera ”, 1995, Sankt-Petersburg, pp.59-79). The author Evgeniya A.Alckseenko has worked at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg) and dedicated her whole life to the Ket study. The Kets is a minority people distributed along the middle Enisej River in the West Siberia. The local groups are along its tributaries as Podkamennaja Tunguska, Kureika, Elogui and others. The author examines the Ket bear f es ti val from the viewpoint of “bear cult ”, taking in account the literature concerned and her own materials from the field work as well. Though the original article was published more than a half centu11• ago, still it is of great importance for the study not only of bear festival as a whole, but also of cultural study of mankind in Eurasia.
