The first conference gathering worldwide specialists in anthropology of Tungus (Evenk and Enen) peoples of Russia and China is held on January 11-13 2013 at OVSQ.

This conference is about Human-environment relations: skills, knoledge, emotions and politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Enen peoples).

​Topics concern:

• techniques in hunting, herding, fishing, landscape uses;
• ethno-history and recent social adaptations (from nomads to villagers, relocation);
• collective representation of the environment (spirits, shamanism, rituals, luck and fortune);
• emotion - multisensory perceptions, etc.;
• political features in the human-environment relationships.

​Org. Com:

• Alexandra Lavrillier - CEARC UVSQ/OVSQ, France, alexandra.lavrillier@uvsq.fr
• Donatas Brandisauskas - Vilnius University, Lithuania, d.brandisauskas@abdn.ac.uk
• Veronika Simonova - Centre for Cultural Studies of Postsocialism, Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan, Russia,vvsimonova@kpfu.ru
• Aurore Dumont, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France, auroredumont@gmail.com
• Vladimir Davydov - Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunst kamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia, davydov@kunstkamera.ru