Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia: The Number One Reindeer BrigadeThis is a first-hand account of a reindeer-herding collective in the remote Taimyr peninsula of Siberia. The author gives an intimate description of the day-to-day lives of a little-known group of Evenkis as they face both economic and ecological challenges. His book therefore fills a gap inour understanding of the historical and political dynamics of northern Asia, and traces the changes caused in the region by the formation of, and the recent break-up of, the Soviet Union. It also addresses wider questions of ecological theory, nationalism, and the formation of identity. ProfessorAnderson's idea of 'nationality inflation' provides a valuable new perspective on these topics. He shows how the Soviet state contributed to this 'inflation' through its creation of 'authorized identities' and suggests how identity policy and the discourse it generated became a powerful historicalforce integrating the social dynamics of economy, politics, and culture. |
Contents
Evenkis in the Lower Yenisei valley | 1 |
The Number One Reindeer Brigade | 18 |
Feeding the Village | 43 |
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Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia: The Number One Reindeer Brigade David G. Anderson No preview available - 2002 |
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administrative animals archival Arctic belonging boundaries clan collective farm collectivization contemporary contexts cultural Dolgikh Dudinka economy endogamy Enneches ethnic ethnographers ethnonym Evenki language Evenkis and Dolgans exclusive exogamy extensive farm Khantaiskii fish GAKK GATAO groups harness herd households hunters hunting Igarka indigenous individuals institutions Kamen Khantaika Evenkis Khatanga kilometres kinship kolkhoz kollektivy Krasnoiarsk Kureika Lake Khantaika land language living lower Yenisei valley marriage N/A N/A national endogamy nationalist native Nenets newcomers Nganasans Nikolai Savel'evich Noril'sk Number One Brigade Number One Reindeer official pastukhi pastures political Popov population Potapovo production Putoran Putoran mountains region Reindeer Brigade reindeer herders relationship resettlement river RKKa Russian Sakha Sakha Republic settlement Shirokogoroff Siberia Snezhnogorsk social Soviet sovkhoz sparse strategy surnames taiga Taimyr Territorial Formation Officers trading Tsarist tundra tundroviki tungus Turukhansk Utukogir vernacular village Volochanka wild deer word work-units Yakut Yakut-speaking Yelogir Yenisei river young