Sakha Sacred Knowledge and the Scars of Modernity
Surviving the Invisibility Monster
Sakha Sacred Knowledge and the Scars of Modernity
Surviving the Invisibility Monster
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Description
This book examines the existence of the Yakutian young ones as silenced inhabitance a “negative space” of fear and myths driven narratives, that contradictio in contrarium would claim their space in the global dialogue of the changing social climates.
Enchanted Forest of the Sakha-land sheds light to the vulnerable and represent social groups: children and women of Yakutia. The evidential truth although interwoven with the local folkloric tradition and saturated in superstitions, it represents real traumas and the sequence of lost identities and lives. Western tradition considers the study of children and childhood as a premise for the study of human development. The development of the idea of childhood in Western thought is linked to the concept of selfhood and the psychology of memory. Thus, the study of a child's development becomes a prerequisite for understanding the modern human.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Invisible Children of Invisible People: Postcolonial Autoethnography and Sakha Sacred Knowledge
Chapter 2 Abandonment, Feral Children, and the Oral Tradition: Turuk and the Epic Heroines
Chapter 3 Cinema of Haunting: Trauma, Landscape, and Female Spectrality in Yakut Horror
Chapter 4 The Corruptive Power of Money in Russian Literature: From Odoevsky to Dostoevsky
Chapter 5 Narratives of Illness and Survival: Embodied Memory in Sakha and Evenki Women's Stories
Chapter 6 Death and Modernity: Tolstoy, Sontag, and Sakha Cosmology
Chapter 7 Folklore, Fairy Tales, and the Scars of Modern Childhood
Chapter 8 Turuk as Survival: Indigenous Knowledge and the Future of Memory
Conclusion: Toward an Anti-Colonial Pedagogy of Survival
Product details
| Published | Aug 06 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781666922738 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 b/w photos |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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