Thematic issue of Siberian Historical Research // Сибирские исторические исследования. 2020. № 1
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THE HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF OUTER SPACE ‘DOMESTIFICATION’ (Guest editors of Special Theme section – Irina G. Popravko and Ivan H. Tchalakov)
Popravko I.G., Tchalakov I.H. The anthropology of outer space: Russian field research in the context of new anthropological inquiries. Introduction to the Special Theme section 10
Popravko I.G., Tchalakov I.H. A long way of the Tunguska meteorite from spaceship to reserve (two tales about entrepreneurship and perseverance in science) 19
Tereshin M.R. Falling back to Earth: Outer space and the Mezen River 53
Sivkov D.Yu. Scales and places: ontologies of space exploration 75
Shnirelman V.A. Archaeology, historical heritage and ethical issues ............................ 97
Seregin N.N., Vasyutin S.A. ‘Ritual’ mounds on the Kok-Pash burial site (Eastern Altai): The formation of a cultural complex of early medieval Turks ................. 123
Kravchenko A.V., Lomakin N.A., Sklez V.M., Sokolova A.D. Paradoxes of temporality: Remembering peasant uprisings 100 years later ........................................ 144
Parfiryev D.S. Volodymyr Okhrymovych and the road to Siberia ................................... 166
Bochkov D.A. It’s very personal, or I don’t really care: The Prague Spring between affect and discourse ............ 188
Karavaeva D.N. Dialects as markers of regional identity in contemporary northern England. 203
Dronova D.A., Butovskaya M.L. Assortative mating and its relationship with sexual dimorphism in Indians: Experimental data using stimulus images ................. 230
Chanturidze O.V. New realism in anthropology and the general theory of lived experience from Wing-Chung Ho ... 247
Basov A.S. Poignant theory: Critical realism of Stephen Reyna .. 253
INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHORS 259 INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS .... 263
Popravko Irina G. and Tchalakov Ivan H. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF OUTER SPACE: RUSSIAN FIELD RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL THEME SECTION DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/27/2 18 Ирина Геннадьевна Поправко, Иван Христов Чалаков Abstract. The first part of the introduction gives an overview of the history and development of the anthropology of outer space internationally, including major events, key authors and topics, as well as current trends in this area of scholarly inquiry. The authors link research in the contemporary anthropology of outer space to the development of space technology after World War II, the competition of space superpowers and other states’ attempts to catch up, as well as to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since the early twenty first century, the field has been interested in the so-called New Space movement represented by grassroots entrepreneurs that seek to explore outer space economically, politically and culturally, beyond the framework of state-funded programmes and affiliated space corporations. The second part of the introduction presents the Special Theme Section articles, their underlying studies, methodological approaches and research results. The concluding part shows how the anthropology of outer space is associated with a number of important current trends in anthropology. Keywords: Margaret Mead, Liza Messeri, Debbora Battaglia, Peter Redfield, Sean Mitchell, Janet Vertesi, SETI, the political anthropology of outer space, New Space, man and outer space, imagination and the anthropology of the future.
Popravko Irina G. and Tchalakov Ivan H. A LONG WAY OF THE TUNGUSKA METEORITE FROM SPACESHIP TO RESERVE (TWO TALES ABOUT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PERSEVERANCE IN SCIENCE) DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/27/3 Abstract. The article offers an analysis of the activities of the Complex Amateur Expedition (CAE) organised to study the Tunguska event and carried out between 1959 and early this century. Here, the CAE is considered not only as a unique phenomenon that reveals the complexity and versatility of Soviet science and society, but also as a concrete manifestation of the universal features of modern science, conceptualised in the framework of Actor-Network Theory and other approaches in Science and Technology Studies. Through a theoretical model of entrepreneurial science / enduring science, an explanation is proposed for a clear division of the CAE’s activities into two unequal time periods. The authors identify the specific practices of the two types of sciences in the analyzed CAE activities, including their challenges to the theoretical model, such as the complexity of the Tunguska event and the special statute of fieldwork in the course of many years of research. Keywords: Complex Amateur Expedition, Tunguska phenomenon, Nikolay Vasilyev, Gennadiy Plekhanov, entrepreneurial / enduring types of science, Actor-Network Theory.
Tereshin Makar R. FALLING BACK TO EARTH: OUTER SPACE AND THE MEZEN RIVER DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/27/4 Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of practices related to collecting carrier rocket boosters in one of the drop zones of the Plesetsk spaceport in the Mezen River basin (North Russia). Drawing on theoretical works in the anthropology of outer space, the author situates outer space in the context of an empirical study on the people collecting rocket boosters, and shows how the drop zone is redefined by the local community. The article contextualizes the local population’s new activity, tracing the ways in which the drop zone is used by them, and discusses how the interaction of the locals and the surrounding landscape has contributed to the new practices. Keywords: anthropology of outer space, Science and Technology Studies, locality, spaceport, space debris, Mezen.
Sivkov Denis Yu. SCALES AND PLACES: ONTOLOGIES OF SPACE EXPLORATION DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/27/5 Abstract. The article discusses the ontologies of space exploration which are associated with the concepts of place and scale. As a rule, space exploration is represented on either a global scale, as all mankind’s actions, or a national scale, as a space race. Anthropological studies of outer space, in turn, show that outer space is localized in particular terrestrial places. These three scales get mixed and compete with each other. Within Science and Technology Studies, it has been argued that the controversies of scales depend on the places that create and maintain scaling. According to this idea, extraterrestrial places represent a challenge to terrestrial ontologies, in which radically different conditions, such as zero gravity, are found. Thus, from the ontological perspective, the interscalar work on combining scales and places becomes a matter of particular importance. Keywords: anthropology of outer space, Science and Technology Studies, scale, place, outer space, space exploration, ontology, locality, interscalarity
