Cinema-Atlas of the USSR: “On the Agan River” (1930)
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History, ethnography, archeology
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Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: recently, visual materials, in particular, historical ethnographic films, have attracted increasing interest in a wide range of humanitarian research. And a special place in this field is justifiably occupied by films created with the advice of professional scientists, a striking example of which is the film document “On the Agan River”.
Objective: to present to the scientific community a significant experience in the history of Russian visual ethnography expressed in the complex of archival materials and publications of the ethnographer R. Mitusova, film director V. N. Belyaev and other participants.
Research materials: visual and text archives, articles of periodicals, little-known printed memoirs of the authors associated with the creation of the film, as well as thematically related publications about the situation in ethnographic science at the turn of 1920–1930s and about the design of the ethno-geographic Cinema-Atlas.
Results and novelty of the research: introduction to scientific circulation earlier not presented in historiography archival materials and periodicals gives representation about the methods and approaches used by the scientific and creative group of the “Soyuzkino” for the creation of the detailed ethnographic cinema essay relevant for understanding and applying in modern visual and ethnographic research. Consideration of the materials of the film expedition to the Khanty people of the Agan River in 1930 in this study is carried out in the context of the implementation of the state project “Cinema-Atlas of the USSR”.
Key words: ethnographic film, visual ethnography, Khanty people, Mitusova, Belyaev, Cinema Atlas of the USSR
Acknowledgments: the research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation as a part of the project № 21-18- 00518, https://rscf.ru/en/project/21-18-00518/.
For citation: Golovnyov I. A. Cinema-Atlas of the USSR: “On the Agan River” (1930) // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (3/54): 538–548.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: recently, visual materials, in particular, historical ethnographic films, have attracted increasing interest in a wide range of humanitarian research. And a special place in this field is justifiably occupied by films created with the advice of professional scientists, a striking example of which is the film document “On the Agan River”.
Objective: to present to the scientific community a significant experience in the history of Russian visual ethnography expressed in the complex of archival materials and publications of the ethnographer R. Mitusova, film director V. N. Belyaev and other participants.
Research materials: visual and text archives, articles of periodicals, little-known printed memoirs of the authors associated with the creation of the film, as well as thematically related publications about the situation in ethnographic science at the turn of 1920–1930s and about the design of the ethno-geographic Cinema-Atlas.
Results and novelty of the research: introduction to scientific circulation earlier not presented in historiography archival materials and periodicals gives representation about the methods and approaches used by the scientific and creative group of the “Soyuzkino” for the creation of the detailed ethnographic cinema essay relevant for understanding and applying in modern visual and ethnographic research. Consideration of the materials of the film expedition to the Khanty people of the Agan River in 1930 in this study is carried out in the context of the implementation of the state project “Cinema-Atlas of the USSR”.
Key words: ethnographic film, visual ethnography, Khanty people, Mitusova, Belyaev, Cinema Atlas of the USSR
Acknowledgments: the research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation as a part of the project № 21-18- 00518, https://rscf.ru/en/project/21-18-00518/.
For citation: Golovnyov I. A. Cinema-Atlas of the USSR: “On the Agan River” (1930) // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (3/54): 538–548.
