Emilie Maj, Republic Sakha (Yakutia), Yakut, anthropologist, movie, Borealia
<p>After a Russian language and civilisation Master, she has become an anthropologist. Since 1999, she has lived during 4 years in Sakha Republic (Yakutia), and has conducted two four-year missions for the Paul-Emile Victor Institute. Graduated from the “Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes” (Paris). She has worked at the Scott Polar Research Institute of Cambridge. She is currently a researcher at the Research department of the Quai Branly Museum (Paris) and at the Tallinn University in Estonia. Parallel to her scientific career, she has always felt the need to share her research with a broad audience, which has led her to organize music tours every two years for Siberian traditional musicians, to lead workshops in schools and to publish numerous articles in various journals. She is the author of a book at L’Harmattan. She has created a publishing and distribution company for Yakutian movies and music (www.borealia.eu). She has published until today two different projects: German and Claudia Khatylaev’s CD (Arctic Spirit) and Viatcheslav Semionov’s movie (Balyksyt) coming along with Nikolay Neoustroyev. She presents Yakutian movies in many festivals and is in charge of subtitling and organizing of projections in cinemas. In this project, she is also scriptwriter and director’s assistant.</p>