A Leete
Biographic Data
| ID | 34702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Leete |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Leete |
| SIGNATURE | LEETE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5505-0043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Soome-ugri kogemus ja kohanemine. Saatesõna
Soome-ugri rahvaid 1 käsitlevat uurimistööd on vorminud uurijate huvid, praktilised võimalused, teadusdistsipliinide ja institutsioonide põhimõtted, ideoloogilised voolud ja poliitilised režiimid.Peamine tõmbejõud nii teadlaskonnas kui ka ühis konnas laiemalt on olnud hõimluse idee, mis algselt lähtus keelesugulusest, kuid laienes ajapikku kujutluseks ühisest päritolust ja kultuurilisest lähedusest.XIX sajandil keele suguluse teooriate ja rahvusl…
Esimesed teadmised kaovad. Komi välitööde kogemus teeleidmisest, ilmast ja asjade korrast
This article reflects on the first ethnographic field data collected by the author in 1996 among Komi hunters. The topics covered during the first encounter between the author and his field partners involved discussions on the practices of wayfinding. These conversations also encompassed weather conditions and broader questions concerning how Komi hunters see the world around them. The article combines a discussion of ethnographic field observati…
Kaasaegne kunst ja vaimne heaolu töökeskkonnas / Contemporary Art and Mental Well-being in the Work Environment
Teesid: Artikli eesmärk on analüüsida erafirmade kontorites toimunud kaasaegse kunsti väljapanekute mõju töötajate vaimsele heaolule. Esmalt kaardistati ettevõtete töötajate ootusi kunstile nende kontorites. Hiljem uuriti, kuidas inimesed tajusid ja mõistsid esitletud teoseid. Ettevõtete töötajate ootused kaasaegse kunsti väljapanekute osas olid laialivalguvad ja kontoris korraldatud näitusi tajuti vastuoluliselt, ent peamiselt positiivselt. Uuri…
Narratives of Indigenous Resistance in North-Western Siberia in the 1930s
The paper discusses official and Indigenous views of the Khanty and Forest Nenets uprising against the Soviets, known as the Kazym War (1931–1934). The rebellion is well documented in archival sources and covered by scholarly research, popular essays, and novels. Almost a century after the uprising, Indigenous narratives about the uprising are still circulating in local communities. Specifically, this paper addresses selected episodes of the Kazy…
Routine and Authority
The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of the post-Soviet reappearance of the Russian Orthodox Church in two rural Komi communities. We aimed to study local perceptions of restoring the Russian Orthodox Church's presence in particular localities. We conducted ethnographic fieldwork in two communities and spoke to local clerics and the inhabitants of the villages under study. Our field research also involved participant observation …
Old Men and the Sea
Western Siberia and the Komi Republic among the Khanty, Mansi, and Forest and Tundra Nenets, as well as the Komi people, since the early 1990s.He carries out research in the history of ethnographic ideas, Siberian and Finno-Ugric ethnography, religious diversity and change in the Russian North, as well as animistic rituals and mythology in the Arctic
Teadus ja sugulus. Soome-ugri etnograafia kujunemine teadusliku kolonialismi taustal
Soome-ugri rahvaste keelesugulus tõestati teaduslikult XVIII sajandil ning peagi hakkasid teadlased otsima nende rahvaste omavahelisi sarnasusi ka muudest kultuurivaldkondadest. Soome-ugri ühtsuse aluseks peeti kunagist algkeelt, algkodu ja ühiskultuuri. Arhailist ühisosa püüti leida soomeugrilaste välimuses ja hingeelus, vaimses ning ainelises kultuuris sarnasusi otsides. Nende ühtelangevuste funktsioon oli mitmekesiselt põhjendada soome-ugri su…
Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research
The aim of this article is to explore the effect of hybridity in the Komi hunters’ knowledge system as well as the potential for mutual understanding in dialogue between ethnographers and their Indigenous partners. I discuss how the hunters exploit printed sources, both scholarly works and popular magazines, in their practice. In the empirical part of this study, I present three case studies that demonstrate different ways in which a potential hy…
Echo and the Ecumene
A duo-biographical recollection of an encounter, this article comprises a dialogue between the authors. On the one hand, it is about a shared moment – a tandem ‘go-along’ tour of the Echo of the Urals exhibition in the Estonian National Museum. On the other, it is about certain similarities and differences in the disciplinary approaches to curating as well as to spectating an ‘inter-national’ museum space in Estonia’s second-largest city, Tartu
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants
In this article we aim to explore how vernacular ideas about spiritual power, words, and silence shape perceptions of religion and witchcraft among the rural Komi people, whose predominant religion is Russian Orthodoxy. In this framework we investigate local ideas of witchcraft, belonging, and strangeness. During our joint ethnographic fieldwork trips to the Komi Republic, Russia, these notions were evoked repeatedly in discussions concerning the…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Silence in the Woods
This article explores the ethnographic, philosophical, and political background of the image of the northern peoples as “silent,” by analyzing the diachronic perspective descriptions of the Finno-Ugric peoples of the north who inhabit Western Siberia and the Russian North from the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Early modern ethnographies treated the Siberian peoples as aggressive, although from the end of the eighteenth cen…
From ‘Heritage Adepts’ to Historical Reconstructionists
On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted between 2007 and 2013, the authors analyse the communities of male artisans that have had the most significant impact on the development of contemporary Estonian handicraft. A wide range of artisans were surveyed in the course of this research, from professionals who earn a living from handicraft to amateurs, small enterprises and handicraft instructors. The authors concentrate on the motifs and b…
Landscape and Gods Among the Khanty
The purpose of this article is to examine Khanty spatial ritual behaviour in the context of the simultaneous application of different ideas about sacred landscape. I aim to demonstrate the functional pattern behind handling seemingly ambivalent characteristics of cosmological models in the tangible ritual performance of the Khanty, an indigenous people inhabiting the taiga and forest taiga zone of Western Siberia. I explore three cases in which t…
Sensing Siberia
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
The Concept of Truth in the Komi Hunting Stories
We analyse the Komi hunters' story-telling as the integrated way of knowledge transmission and communicating vernacular beliefs. We intend to demonstrate that although vernacular beliefs regulating hunting story-telling are widespread in the North, local practices enable us to reveal peculiarities of the tradition in a nuanced way. Our study is based on annual collaborative fieldwork trips to the Komi hunters, which began in 1996. During these ye…
Pentecostals and Charismatic Protestants in the Republic of Komi and Nenets Tundra
Between 2010 and 2012, an extended team of scholars studied contemporary Protestant groups in Russia. The project was labelled Center for the Study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Russia 1 (CSPCMR) and was led by Aleksandr Panchenko from the European University in Saint Petersburg and Patrick Plattet from the
The Historical-Ethnographic Image of the Drinking Peoples of the North
In this paper I aim to analyse descriptions of Arctic peoples' drinking as one of the oldest stereotypes concerning inhabitants of the North. I intend to explore philosophical frameworks and ways of observation that influenced the appearance and maintenance of the image of a drinking northerner in literature through the millennia. I have examined different sources that provide descriptions of northern drinking as well as scientific and philosophi…
The Churches were Opened and Lots of Missionaries Arrived
The Komi people in northern Russia tend to consider the Russian Orthodox faith as a natural part of their lives and self-image.During recent decades different Protestant churches have spread intensively over the Republic of Komi.Although the Protestants constitute a small minority of the local population, they play a major role in initiating discussion concerning ethnic traditions, identity and the freedom to select a faith.The local population's…
Introduction
The Arctic is associated in popular perception with a vast frozen snow covered empty place.Everybody who has been in the Arctic, whether in the Eurasian or North American part, knows that this stereotype is correct.Indeed, the Arctic is a place with lots of space that determines the lifestyle of the people in this area.All human activities -whether livelihood or mastering of the territory -are and always have been connected with substantial movem…
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
The focus of this article is on different adaptations of Christianity by the northern indigenous peoples of Russia in the early Soviet period.We shall examine the community of Yup'ik Eskimo maritime hunters who experimented with Christian ritual forms in order to overcome the crisis caused by the intrusion of the Soviets.Naukan Yup'ik developed a Christian-influenced ritualistic practice to fight back against growing pressure from the Soviets.We …
Notes about Re-identification of Ethnographic Groups
From 2006 to 2008, three teams of researchers from Estonia, Finland and Russia carried out a joint research project "Ethnic fragmentation and re-identification as a form of social adaptation of local communities (Setus, Ingrian Finns, Pomors, Izhma Komis)" 1 . The project established research cooperation between the University of Tartu (Estonia), University of Helsinki (Finland), Komi Science Centre (Syktyvkar, Russia), and Centre of Pomor Cultur…
The Role of Young People in Resistance against the Soviet Rule among the Northern Peoples in the 1930s-1940s
At the beginning of the 1930s, the life of the northern peoples in Soviet Russia started to change rapidly. The new way of modernisation which predicted collectivisation, reorganisation of local administrative system, education, and religious life remained rather incomprehensible for the local communities. In many instances, the local groups of the northern peoples resisted these changes. In addition, a few attempts of armed resistance were under…
Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeples
This paper provides an overview of the extreme descriptions of northern peoples, including themes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, alcohol-addiction and filthiness, in writings of the period from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These depictions are indicative of cultural barriers, extreme stereotypes and ethnocentrism - all phenomena that were relatively acceptable in the research of that period. In the eighteenth-century ac…
Folk Religion and Identity
The Concept of Truth in the Komi Hunting Stories
We analyse the Komi hunters' story-telling as the integrated way of knowledge transmission and communicating vernacular beliefs. We intend to demonstrate that although vernacular beliefs regulating hunting story-telling are widespread in the North, local practices enable us to reveal peculiarities of the tradition in a nuanced way. Our study is based on annual collaborative fieldwork trips to the Komi hunters, which began in 1996. During these ye…
Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeples
This paper provides an overview of the extreme descriptions of northern peoples, including themes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, alcohol-addiction and filthiness, in writings of the period from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These depictions are indicative of cultural barriers, extreme stereotypes and ethnocentrism - all phenomena that were relatively acceptable in the research of that period. In the eighteenth-century ac…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
The Churches were Opened and Lots of Missionaries Arrived
The Komi people in northern Russia tend to consider the Russian Orthodox faith as a natural part of their lives and self-image.During recent decades different Protestant churches have spread intensively over the Republic of Komi.Although the Protestants constitute a small minority of the local population, they play a major role in initiating discussion concerning ethnic traditions, identity and the freedom to select a faith.The local population's…
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
The focus of this article is on different adaptations of Christianity by the northern indigenous peoples of Russia in the early Soviet period.We shall examine the community of Yup'ik Eskimo maritime hunters who experimented with Christian ritual forms in order to overcome the crisis caused by the intrusion of the Soviets.Naukan Yup'ik developed a Christian-influenced ritualistic practice to fight back against growing pressure from the Soviets.We …
Notes about Re-identification of Ethnographic Groups
From 2006 to 2008, three teams of researchers from Estonia, Finland and Russia carried out a joint research project "Ethnic fragmentation and re-identification as a form of social adaptation of local communities (Setus, Ingrian Finns, Pomors, Izhma Komis)" 1 . The project established research cooperation between the University of Tartu (Estonia), University of Helsinki (Finland), Komi Science Centre (Syktyvkar, Russia), and Centre of Pomor Cultur…
Regarding the Way-Finding Habits of the Siberian peoples, considering the Khants as an example
According to J. Derrida, meanings that are separate and not related to any sign system, refer to an impaired layer prior to a language or sign system (Derrida 1995: 39-40). Pre-alphabet meanings (i.e. meanings that existed before a language or sign system) can be related to any human action in the landscape, including way-finding
Arhailisest ja sekundaarsest kirjast ning kultuurimuutustest
Jrgnevas pgusas levaates eeldan, et maastiku tunnetamine ning orienteerumine (eriti traditsioonilised orienteerumisstrateegiad) on teatud
Ways of Describing Nenets and Khanty 'Character ' in 19th Century Russian Ethnographic Literature
The current article deals with general assertions about the natives of West-Siberia as bearers of their world view conception in the Russian ethnographic literature of the last century. The aim of the article is to explain the general or background attitudes towards the Khanty and Nenets people in the 19th century (as well as to-wards their world view) in ethnographic literature during the pe-riod under discussion. A certain attitude towards the …
Folk Religion and Identity
Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeples
This paper provides an overview of the extreme descriptions of northern peoples, including themes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, alcohol-addiction and filthiness, in writings of the period from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These depictions are indicative of cultural barriers, extreme stereotypes and ethnocentrism - all phenomena that were relatively acceptable in the research of that period. In the eighteenth-century ac…
The Role of Young People in Resistance against the Soviet Rule among the Northern Peoples in the 1930s-1940s
At the beginning of the 1930s, the life of the northern peoples in Soviet Russia started to change rapidly. The new way of modernisation which predicted collectivisation, reorganisation of local administrative system, education, and religious life remained rather incomprehensible for the local communities. In many instances, the local groups of the northern peoples resisted these changes. In addition, a few attempts of armed resistance were under…
Notes about Re-identification of Ethnographic Groups
From 2006 to 2008, three teams of researchers from Estonia, Finland and Russia carried out a joint research project "Ethnic fragmentation and re-identification as a form of social adaptation of local communities (Setus, Ingrian Finns, Pomors, Izhma Komis)" 1 . The project established research cooperation between the University of Tartu (Estonia), University of Helsinki (Finland), Komi Science Centre (Syktyvkar, Russia), and Centre of Pomor Cultur…
Introduction
The Arctic is associated in popular perception with a vast frozen snow covered empty place.Everybody who has been in the Arctic, whether in the Eurasian or North American part, knows that this stereotype is correct.Indeed, the Arctic is a place with lots of space that determines the lifestyle of the people in this area.All human activities -whether livelihood or mastering of the territory -are and always have been connected with substantial movem…
Adapting Christianity on the Siberian Edge during the Early Soviet Period
The focus of this article is on different adaptations of Christianity by the northern indigenous peoples of Russia in the early Soviet period.We shall examine the community of Yup'ik Eskimo maritime hunters who experimented with Christian ritual forms in order to overcome the crisis caused by the intrusion of the Soviets.Naukan Yup'ik developed a Christian-influenced ritualistic practice to fight back against growing pressure from the Soviets.We …
The Churches were Opened and Lots of Missionaries Arrived
The Komi people in northern Russia tend to consider the Russian Orthodox faith as a natural part of their lives and self-image.During recent decades different Protestant churches have spread intensively over the Republic of Komi.Although the Protestants constitute a small minority of the local population, they play a major role in initiating discussion concerning ethnic traditions, identity and the freedom to select a faith.The local population's…
The Concept of Truth in the Komi Hunting Stories
We analyse the Komi hunters' story-telling as the integrated way of knowledge transmission and communicating vernacular beliefs. We intend to demonstrate that although vernacular beliefs regulating hunting story-telling are widespread in the North, local practices enable us to reveal peculiarities of the tradition in a nuanced way. Our study is based on annual collaborative fieldwork trips to the Komi hunters, which began in 1996. During these ye…
Pentecostals and Charismatic Protestants in the Republic of Komi and Nenets Tundra
Between 2010 and 2012, an extended team of scholars studied contemporary Protestant groups in Russia. The project was labelled Center for the Study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Russia 1 (CSPCMR) and was led by Aleksandr Panchenko from the European University in Saint Petersburg and Patrick Plattet from the
The Historical-Ethnographic Image of the Drinking Peoples of the North
In this paper I aim to analyse descriptions of Arctic peoples' drinking as one of the oldest stereotypes concerning inhabitants of the North. I intend to explore philosophical frameworks and ways of observation that influenced the appearance and maintenance of the image of a drinking northerner in literature through the millennia. I have examined different sources that provide descriptions of northern drinking as well as scientific and philosophi…
Sensing Siberia
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Landscape and Gods Among the Khanty
The purpose of this article is to examine Khanty spatial ritual behaviour in the context of the simultaneous application of different ideas about sacred landscape. I aim to demonstrate the functional pattern behind handling seemingly ambivalent characteristics of cosmological models in the tangible ritual performance of the Khanty, an indigenous people inhabiting the taiga and forest taiga zone of Western Siberia. I explore three cases in which t…
From ‘Heritage Adepts’ to Historical Reconstructionists
On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted between 2007 and 2013, the authors analyse the communities of male artisans that have had the most significant impact on the development of contemporary Estonian handicraft. A wide range of artisans were surveyed in the course of this research, from professionals who earn a living from handicraft to amateurs, small enterprises and handicraft instructors. The authors concentrate on the motifs and b…
Silence in the Woods
This article explores the ethnographic, philosophical, and political background of the image of the northern peoples as “silent,” by analyzing the diachronic perspective descriptions of the Finno-Ugric peoples of the north who inhabit Western Siberia and the Russian North from the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Early modern ethnographies treated the Siberian peoples as aggressive, although from the end of the eighteenth cen…
Teadus ja sugulus. Soome-ugri etnograafia kujunemine teadusliku kolonialismi taustal
Soome-ugri rahvaste keelesugulus tõestati teaduslikult XVIII sajandil ning peagi hakkasid teadlased otsima nende rahvaste omavahelisi sarnasusi ka muudest kultuurivaldkondadest. Soome-ugri ühtsuse aluseks peeti kunagist algkeelt, algkodu ja ühiskultuuri. Arhailist ühisosa püüti leida soomeugrilaste välimuses ja hingeelus, vaimses ning ainelises kultuuris sarnasusi otsides. Nende ühtelangevuste funktsioon oli mitmekesiselt põhjendada soome-ugri su…
Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research
The aim of this article is to explore the effect of hybridity in the Komi hunters’ knowledge system as well as the potential for mutual understanding in dialogue between ethnographers and their Indigenous partners. I discuss how the hunters exploit printed sources, both scholarly works and popular magazines, in their practice. In the empirical part of this study, I present three case studies that demonstrate different ways in which a potential hy…
Echo and the Ecumene
A duo-biographical recollection of an encounter, this article comprises a dialogue between the authors. On the one hand, it is about a shared moment – a tandem ‘go-along’ tour of the Echo of the Urals exhibition in the Estonian National Museum. On the other, it is about certain similarities and differences in the disciplinary approaches to curating as well as to spectating an ‘inter-national’ museum space in Estonia’s second-largest city, Tartu
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants
In this article we aim to explore how vernacular ideas about spiritual power, words, and silence shape perceptions of religion and witchcraft among the rural Komi people, whose predominant religion is Russian Orthodoxy. In this framework we investigate local ideas of witchcraft, belonging, and strangeness. During our joint ethnographic fieldwork trips to the Komi Republic, Russia, these notions were evoked repeatedly in discussions concerning the…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Narratives of Indigenous Resistance in North-Western Siberia in the 1930s
The paper discusses official and Indigenous views of the Khanty and Forest Nenets uprising against the Soviets, known as the Kazym War (1931–1934). The rebellion is well documented in archival sources and covered by scholarly research, popular essays, and novels. Almost a century after the uprising, Indigenous narratives about the uprising are still circulating in local communities. Specifically, this paper addresses selected episodes of the Kazy…
Routine and Authority
The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of the post-Soviet reappearance of the Russian Orthodox Church in two rural Komi communities. We aimed to study local perceptions of restoring the Russian Orthodox Church's presence in particular localities. We conducted ethnographic fieldwork in two communities and spoke to local clerics and the inhabitants of the villages under study. Our field research also involved participant observation …
Old Men and the Sea
Western Siberia and the Komi Republic among the Khanty, Mansi, and Forest and Tundra Nenets, as well as the Komi people, since the early 1990s.He carries out research in the history of ethnographic ideas, Siberian and Finno-Ugric ethnography, religious diversity and change in the Russian North, as well as animistic rituals and mythology in the Arctic
History (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Ethnology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (8 works)