Интимные пространства для тела и души в деревне: неловкость, смущение и стыд как часть включенного наблюдения

Кунсткамера. 2018. № 2. С. 12–19.

Troitskaya-Rakhmanova L.

The article deals with various physical and symbolic spaces, which are the fields of interaction
and communication of local residents and researchers participating in their daily life. These spaces are of different
nature and they are addressed with different periodicity, they have physical boundaries or special situational
dimensions, but all of them have one thing in common: a sense of embarrassment and awkwardness when a space
becomes shared. The author analyzes different modes of the intimate manifested in different ways at the izba, the
church, the shop, in the street and in taiga. Thus it is possible to identify not only stable intimate zones in terms of
location and time of functioning, but also to single out intimate spaces, “flickering” in time, changing their position
in space, conventional spaces, defined on the basis of agreement, intently delineated intimate spaces, as well as
intimate spaces integrated into the public environment manifested in a situational manner. A researcher can become
a part of these intimate spaces freely and involuntarily: one can “enter” them via involving in everyday life
practices, through personal conversation, interviews, participation in festive activities or fishing; via communication
with children; visiting a bar or attending a church service. But how to “get out” of these spaces without destroying
or damaging anything, taking into account the vulnerability and openness of informants in these situations?

Keywords: уязвимость, открытость, включенное наблюдение, participant observation, openness, vulnerability, стыд, shame, anthropology of space, антропология пространства, неловкость, символические границы, интимные пространства, awkwardness, symbolic boundaries, intimate spaces