Institut für Ethnologie
08.07.2025: Vortrag im Ethnologischen Kolloqium von Asya Karaseva
4. Juli 2025, von Christina Fastner
Asya Karaseva (University of Tartu/Universität Hamburg) zum Thema:
From ‘Interesting Incident’ to ‘Emergency’: Mediatization and Changing Eventfulness of Human-Brown Bear Encounters in Kolyma, Russia
This presentation will examine encounters between humans and brown bears in the Magadan region, also known as Kolyma, Russia, through the lens of mediatization. While brown bear ceremonialism and hunting are well-established topics in Siberian anthropology, the experiences of urban settlers have received little attention. I will address this gap by exploring how the increasing presence of cameras in daily life has shaped the eventfulness of bear encounters in the former Soviet industrial frontier. Drawing on media reports, I will trace shifts in the framing of human-brown bear encounters throughout the Magadan region’s history. I argue that historical changes in the media ecology affect not only ways of seeing brown bears but also broader wildlife expertise and politics in Russia. The presentation will conclude by reflecting on the recent prominence of “encounter” in human-animal anthropological research.
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