We focus on Tundra Yukaghir reincarnation cosmology and its workings in the current ethnic revival by examining rebirth accounts from the Lower Kolyma. In Sovietized Siberia, the atheist state fought against everything that was “religious” and thus contributed to the wane of reincarnation ideology and related ritual practices. In addition, the state suppressed a distinct Yukaghir ethnicity it had partly constructed itself. In the 1990s, rebirth returned to public discourse, which coincided with the time of a vibrant ethnic revival movement. We shall explore how today Yukaghir elders, who fear their people will die out, link the idea of individual reincarnation with the trope of “the rebirth of a people.” In this particular sociohistorical context, they juxtapose the trajectories of personal and collective becoming through the notion of recognition, as both gaining full personhood and full peoplehood depends on being acknowledged by others (the living and the dead) as well as by oneself.

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人民的重生：西伯利亚东北部下科利马的苔原Yukaghir中的轮回宇宙学

通过研究下科利马州的重生资料，我们关注Tundra Yukaghir转世宇宙学及其在当前种族复兴中的运作。在苏联化的西伯利亚，无神论国家与一切“宗教”进行了斗争，从而促成了轮回意识形态和相关仪式实践的衰落。此外，该州压制了自己部分建立的独特的尤卡希尔族。在1990年代，重生重新回到了公众的讨论中，恰逢民族复兴运动活跃的时候。我们将探讨今天的尤卡吉尔族长者，他们担心自己的人民会死掉，如何将个人轮回的思想与“一个人的重生”的说法联系起来。在这种特殊的社会历史背景下，他们通过承认的概念将个人和集体的发展轨迹并置在一起，