Keywords
expedition
ethnographic film
intellectual culture
late socialism
Andris Slapiņš
Siberian shamanism
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the history of the ethnographic film Dream Time (1982/1999) by Soviet/Latvian cameraman Andris Slapiņš (1949–1991), which was the result of a long-time work of research expeditions organised in the 1980s by the Folklore Commission of the Union of Soviet Composers. The focus of the musical folklore researchers and the cinematographer was on the live shamanic traditions of Siberia and the Far East. In order to organise field research and create a film about shamans who officially did not exist in the USSR, a coincidence of historical circumstances was necessary, which is known in academic literature as “late” socialism. The article attempts to explain this term and show that it not only covers only political, economic and ideological changes, but also presents the period of “late” USSR as a specific type of intellectual culture.
Funding
Artykuł został przygotowany przy wsparciu fundacji Das Akademische Netzwerk Osteuropa (akno e.V.), 2025.
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