Maria Butinova Explained

Maria Sidorovna Butinova (Russian: Мария Сидоровна Бутинова), née Dolgonosova, (Russian: Долгоносова; 19 November 1920, in Millerovo – 2007) was a Soviet and Russian ethnographer, historian, and religious scholar. As a doctor of historical sciences, she was a specialist in the field of religion of Oceania.[1] [2]

Biography

From the working-class family, husband – N. A. Butinov, ethnographer. From 1938 to 1942, she was a student of the Department of Ethnography of the Faculty of Philology of the Leningrad State University. From September 1941 to February 1942, she worked in a military hospital during the Siege of Leningrad.[3] In 1942, she and the university were evacuated to Saratov.[4] From 1942 to 1945 she was a graduate student at the Leningrad State University. From 1945 to 1949, Butinova was a teacher at the Oriental faculty of the Leningrad State University. In 1948, Butinova received a Candidate of Sciences degree, having defended a dissertation at the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the theme "E. Tylor's Doctrine of Remnants". From 1949 to 1952, she was a teacher at the Faculty of History of the Leningrad State University. In 1951, she took part in the creation of a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography entitled "Peoples of Australia and Oceania". In 1952, Butinova went to work at the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where she worked until 1991. By 1952, she was a research fellow. From 1953 to 1962, Butinova was a scientific secretary. Since 1961, she was a senior research fellow. From 1960 to 1961 she was acting museum director.[5] From 1968 to 1983, Butinova was a head of the origin of religion department of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism. In 1975, Butinova defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic "Missionaryism and Colonialism (based on materials from the peoples of Oceania)."[6]

Butinova died in 2007.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. https://bioslovhist.spbu.ru/person/1505-butinova-mariya-sidorovna.html Бутинова Мария Сидоровна
  2. http://ethnographica.kunstkamera.ru/w/index.php?title=%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0)_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 Бутинова (Долгоносова) Мария Сидоровна
  3. http://ethnographica.kunstkamera.ru/w/index.php?title=%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0)_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 Бутинова (Долгоносова) Мария Сидоровна
  4. https://bioslovhist.spbu.ru/person/1505-butinova-mariya-sidorovna.html Бутинова Мария Сидоровна
  5. https://bioslovhist.spbu.ru/person/1505-butinova-mariya-sidorovna.html Бутинова Мария Сидоровна
  6. http://ethnographica.kunstkamera.ru/w/index.php?title=%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_(%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0)_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0 Бутинова (Долгоносова) Мария Сидоровна
  7. Web site: Butinova (Dolgonosova) Maria . relstud-hist.spbu.ru . Saint Petersburg State University . 4 December 2021.