Reproducing and shifting discourses on indigenous culture: Ethnographic self-descriptions of the Kola Sámi

The article considers ethnographic self-descriptions as a cultural form in which indigenous authors conceptualise their culture the shifting social contexts. Ethnographic selfdescriptions present (a) transformation of oral-discursive practices into text; (b) interpretation scientific versions by authors. author focuses on how Sámi is conceptualized text and written authors, taking account descriptions non-discursive forms (such collections). In texts anthropological become source for reproducing some patterns culture’s conceptualization relevant to particular tradition sciences. Thus, are interpreted terms intertextuality with an emphasis relations between oral discourse, academic discursive practices. Texts part reality or elements events have causal effects contribute changes perception ways it represented perspective, i.e., participate reproduction, creation modification numerous discourses Kola culture. self-description many Sámi, ‘culture’ can be recontextualized actors. Moreover, positions identity observer (the author) observed (indigenous people) partly connected, implies change epistemological status discourse. processual approach focus insights presented constitute methodological basis examining contemporary trends (Russia). analyses published who not professional anthropologists.