Abstract
Ethnographers writing about their own cultures in Siberia have long been both fascinated by their spiritual roots and yet removed from those roots through formal Soviet education and informal socialization. The authors featured here are from the Sakha (Yakut), Tuvinian, and Eskimo cultures, and also represent different generations of scholarship. Nonetheless, they have in common a thirst for detail and a cultural insider's understanding of the reasoning behind many of the traditions they describe. Most of all, they are joined in a conception of themselves, representatives of diverse cultures, as struggling through unavoidable processes of change without total acculturation of Russian, Soviet, industrial, and "postmodern" ways. As part of their own processes of deeper cultural understanding, they have delved into the religious histories of their peoples, through interviews with elders or through systematic archival research.
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