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<p>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 hybridity of knowledge has appeared in a field encounter. The analysis shows that some pieces of the hunters’ knowledge have a background in written sources, while they present scholarly evidence as facts from their own lives. At the same time, some similarities between the hunters’ narratives and publications are possibly random. I argue that exploitation of scholarly works and popular publications by hunters brings together Indigenous and scholarly knowledge and supports the potential of collaborative research.</p>
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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 hybridity of knowledge has appeared in a field encounter. The analysis shows that some pieces of the hunters’ knowledge have a background in written sources, while they present scholarly evidence as facts from their own lives. At the same time, some similarities between the hunters’ narratives and publications are possibly random. I argue that exploitation of scholarly works and popular publications by hunters brings together Indigenous and scholarly knowledge and supports the potential of collaborative research.

Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research : The Komi Case

Professor of Ethnology Department of Ethnology, Arctic Studies Centre Institute of Cultural Research

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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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...

Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research : The Komi Case

Published Online: Dec 16, 2022

Page range: 86 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2022-0014

Keywords
Indigenous knowledge, hybridity, Komi, hunting, worldview

© 2022 Art Leete, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research : The Komi Case

Published Online: Dec 16, 2022

Page range: 86 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2022-0014

KeywordsIndigenous knowledge, hybridity, Komi, hunting, worldview

© 2022 Art Leete, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Indigenous knowledge, hybridity, Komi, hunting, worldview