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