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the dissolution of local and ethnic identities. Relevant materials have been,
and will continue to be, produced in cooperation with local experts and using
modern technologies.
For this, the publishing arm of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures has
established the DVD series “Languages & Cultures of Indigenous Peoples in
Kamchatka”, edited by Erich Kasten. The DVDs are first of all aimed at the
school curriculum and at cultural programmes in Kamchatka and they present
specimens of the related spoken languages in monologues and dialogues.
These can be used as well in international research and in university courses.
The DVDs have English and Russian subtitles. Booklets contain both the
translations and the transcribed original texts. For samples and video-clips see:
http://www.kulturstiftung-sibirien.de/materialien_E.html > more.
The series is subdivided into:
• Itelmen Language & Culture (ILC);
• Even Language & Culture (ELC);
• Koryak Language & Culture (KLC).
Individual publications of these sub-series address to the following themes:
• The remembered past;
• Traditional ecological knowledge;
• Clothing & decorative arts;
• Ritual practice & world view;
• Human-environment relations as expressed in tales, songs and dance;
• Conferences, workshops, festivals.
Itelmen Language Classes in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski:
This project results from an initiative of Tjan Zaotschnaja and aims to support
the preservation of the Itelmen language in Kamchatka. It is being conducted
in cooperation with the Munich-based group of the Society for Threatened
Peoples (“Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker – Regionalgruppe München”).
The Itelmen language is one of the most threatened languages in the world.
There are only about two dozen remaining speakers of the older generation
who speak the language fluently. At the same time, among Itelmen youth and in
particular among those who live in the capital of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski,
there is a growing interest in maintaining their native language. For them, it
embodies not only specific indigenous knowledge. It also links them to their
ancestors, one of the most ancient peoples of Kamchatka.
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