The Three Duties of Good Fortune

'Luck' as a Relational Process among Hunting Peoples of the Siberian Forest in Pre-Soviet Times

Bibliographic Data

ID18956151
AuthorsRoberte Hamayon (corresponding author), Roberte N Hamayon
Year2012
Volume56
Issue1
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/sa.2012.560107
OpenAlexW2325573526
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This article is based on data from pre-Soviet Siberia, mainly, the West Buryat and Tungus Evenk groups. As a product that cannot be produced, game is an ideal example of something that requires 'luck'. Far from being passively received, luck requires an active behavior and implies controlled interactions with various types of agencies of the natural environment and within society. Luck is the outcome of a multirelational process that starts with multiple precautionary measures, continues with fostering, and ends with sharing practices. This action results, paradoxically, in challenging both equality and differentiation, social redistribution and individual responsibility. Throughout this process, luck is associated with meat and vital force (as a substance) and with love, play, and wealth (as a value)

Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Luck · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History

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