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Subject(s)

• Ethnicity [Browse]
• Human ecology [Browse]
• Human geography [Browse]

Editor

• Ziker, John P. (John Peter), 1965- [Browse]
• Ferguson, Jenanne, 1983- [Browse]
• Davydov, Vladimir [Browse]

Series

Routledge worlds. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Siberian World provides a window onto the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure. Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation. The chapters examine a variety of interconnected themes, including language revitalization, legal pluralism, ecology, trade, religion, climate change, and co-creation of practices and identities with state programs and policies. The book's ethnographically-rich contributions highlight Indigenous voices, important theoretical concepts, and practices. The material connects with wider discussions of perception of the environment, climate change, cultural and linguistic change, urbanization, Indigenous rights, Arctic politics, globalization, and sustainability/resilience. The Siberian World will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines, including, Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental history, political science, and sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Indigenous Language Revival and Cultural Change
• Chapter 1 Language vitality and sustainability: Minority Indigenous languages in the Sakha Republic
• Chapter 2 (Socio)linguistic outcomes of social reorganization in Chukotka
• Chapter 3 Kŋaloz'a'n Ujeret'i'n Ŋetełkila'n-Keepers of the Native Hearth: The social life of the Itelmen language-documentation and revitalization
• Chapter 4 The phenomenology of riverine names and hydrological maps among Siberian Evenki
• Chapter 5 The tundra Nenets' fire rites, or what is hidden inside of the Nenets female needlework bag tutsya?
• Chapter 6 Transformations of cooking technologies, spatial displacement, and food nostalgia in Chukotka
• Part II Land, Law, and Ecology
• Chapter 7 Customary law today: Mechanisms of sustainable development of Indigenous peoples
• Chapter 8 Indigenous land rights and land use in Siberia: Neighboring jurisdictions, varied approaches
• Chapter 9 Evenki "false" accounts: Supplies and reindeer in an Indigenous enterprise
• Chapter 10 Climate change through the eyes of Yamal reindeer herders
• Chapter 11 Nature-on-the-move: Boreal forest, permafrost, and pastoral strategies of Sakha people
• Chapter 12 Fluctuating human-animal relations: Soiot herder-hunters of South-Central Siberia
• Chapter 13 Ecology and culture: Two case studies of empirical knowledge among Katanga Evenkis of Eastern Siberia
• Part III Co-Creation of People and the State
• Chapter 14 Dancing with cranes, singing to gods: The Sakha Yhyakh and post-Soviet national revival
• Chapter 15 Double-edged publicity: The youth movement in Buryatia in the 2000s.
• Chapter 16 Soviet Debris: Failure and the poetics of unfinished construction in Northern Siberia
• Chapter 17 Local gender contracts and the production of traditionality in Siberian Old Believer places
• Chapter 18 Arctic LNG production and the state (the case of Yamal Peninsula)
• Chapter 19 Biography of alcohol in the Arctic village
• Chapter 20 Sanctioned and unsanctioned trade
• Chapter 21 Longitudinal ethnography and changing social networks
• Part IV Formal and Grassroots Infrastructure and Siberian Mobility
• Chapter 22 Evenki hunters' and reindeer herders' mobility: Transformation of autonomy regimes
• Chapter 23 The infrastructure of food distribution: Translocal Dagestani migrants in Western Siberia
• Chapter 24 Development cycles of cities in the Siberian North
• Chapter 25 What difference does a railroad make?: Transportation and settlement in the BAM region in historical perspective
• Chapter 26 Stuck in between: Transportation infrastructure, corporate social responsibility, and the state in a small Siberian oil town
• Chapter 27 Hidden dimensions of clandestine fishery: A misfortune topology based on scenarios of failures
• Chapter 28 Infrastructural brokers in a logistical cul-de-sac: Taimyr's wild winter road drivers
• Chapter 29 Ice roads and floating shops: The seasonal variations and landscape of mobility in Northwest Siberia
• Part V Religious Mosaics in Siberia
• Chapter 30 Contemporary shamanic and spiritual practices in the city of Yakutsk
• Chapter 31 The making of Altaian nationalism: Indigenous intelligentsia, Oirot prophecy, and socialist autonomy, 1904-1922
• Chapter 32 Missionaries in the Russian Arctic: Religious and ideological changes among Nenets reindeer herders
• Chapter 33 Nanai post-Soviet Shamanism: "True" shamans among the "neo-shamans".
• Chapter 34 Feeding the gi'rgir at Kilvei: An exploration of human-reindeer-ancestor relations among the Siberian Chukchi
• Chapter 35 Feasts and festivals among contemporary Siberian communities
• Chapter 36 Animals as a reflection of the universe structure in the culture of Oka Buryats and Soiots
• Part VI Conceptions of History
• Chapter 37 Economics of the Santan trade: Profit of the Nivkh and Ul'chi traders in Northeast Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries
• Chapter 38 Power, ritual, and art in the Siberian Ice Age: The collection of ornamented artifacts as evidence of prestige technology
• Chapter 39 Archaeology of shamanism in Siberian prehistory
• Chapter 40 Rock art research in Southeast Siberia: A history of ideas and ethnographic interpretations
• Chapter 41 A history of Siberian ethnography
• Chapter 42 Cycles of change: Seasonality in the environmental history of Siberia
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-429-35466-5
• 1-000-83005-5

OCLC

1373986784

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