%0 Journal Article
%T Native Spirituality in (Re)constructed Personhood: Observing and Filming Yuri Vella
%A Eva Toulouze
%A Liivo Niglas
%J Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore
%D 2012
%I Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Folklore Institute
%X This article is an attempt to understand what role spiritual mattersplay in the ideas and everyday life of a public figure quite famous in Western Siberia, the Forest Nenets writer, reindeer herder and activist Yuri Vella, and how the so-called religious practice is articulated in his life. In our reflection, we do not rely on any ad-hoc discourse, on issue-centred interviews, but on our fieldwork observation of speech and practice, a big part of which has been recorded on video with the aim of using it in the making of ethnographic films.
%K personhood
%K identity
%K spirituality
%K religion
%K participant observation
%K ethnographic film
%U http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol51/toulouze_niglas.pdf