Peoples of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-communist TransitionWaveland Press, 2002 - 197 pages In this sense, the book fills a gap in the ethnographic literature on Siberia for Western students and, at the same time, serves as a microcosm of the devastating changes affecting rural communities and indigenous peoples generally in a disintegrating former superpower; that is, increasing isolation and a shift to nonmarket survival economies."--ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Outline | 19 |
Resistance and Collaboration | 63 |
Alcohol and Violent Death | 85 |
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alcohol ancestors animals Arctic fox argish Avam hunters Avam tundra Avam's balok Boris brigade burbot cabin caribou caribou hunt chum collective farms collectivization common-pool resources cooperation distribution Dolgan and Nganasan Dudinka Dudypta River Dulsimyaku economic ethnic Evenk example family/clan holdings fertility rates Figure foraging genealogical goose gospromkhoz groups herd households hunting territory important included individuals interviews Khatanga Khatanga Rivers kinship kulaks land claims live locations meat and fish merchants migration Month native Siberian Nenets nevod non-native Norilsk North northern on-water percent Piasina River post-Soviet production Putorana RAIPON reciprocity reindeer reindeer-herding relatives Russian sables settlement shaitany shaman Siberia sleigh snowmobiles social Soviet period Soviet Union sovkhoz subsistence Table Taimyr Autonomous Region Taimyr Peninsula Taimyr Region tion TOKM traditional trap line tribute Tukhard Turukhansk Ust Avam village violent death Volochanka winter women Yakut Yenisei Yenisei River Ziker