Issue 1 (34)
| “ABUNDANCE” AND “POVERTY” IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC ESSAYS BY S. V. MAKSIMOV “FOREST WILDERNESS” AND “A YEAR IN THE NORTH” | |||
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| Year | 2012 | Number | 1(34) |
| Pages | 103-108 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | BBK | ||
| Authors | Gramatchikova Natalia B. |
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| Summary | The author studied the concepts of “abundance” and “poverty” in the collection of essays by S. Maksimov “Forest Wilderness” (1817) and “A Year in the North” (1859). She analyzed the nature of relationship of man with the abundance of nature, methods of adaptation, and the contrast between the forces of nature and human efforts, as well as the reasons for the everlasting poverty of the population as presented in the Maksimov’s essays. According to the writer’s logic the notion of “abundance” was, first, introduced from the outside, and second, construed by the native attitude of the personages themselves to their environment, where not the least role was played by the notions of measure and immensity, which were distorted as a result of the abundance of the natural resources. The article made an attempt to explain the stepwise process of transition from poverty to abundance and generosity as opposed to the accumulative process. | ||
| Keywords | Ethnographic sketch, the Russian North, the forest, poverty, wealth, abundance, measure the immensity of | ||
| References |
Максимов С. В. Грибовник // Максимов С. В. Избранное / подгот. текста, сост., вступ. ст., примеч. С. И. Плеханова. М., 1981. С. 84. |
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