Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia The Number One Reindeer Brigade

Name: Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia The Number One Reindeer Brigade
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ISBN: 9780199250820

ISBN-10: 0199250820

ISBN-13: 9780199250820

Edition: 2002

Authors: David G. Anderson

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This 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 in our 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. David G. Anderson's idea of `nationality inflation' provides a valuable new perspective on these topics. He shows how…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Plates


List of Charts


List of Maps


List of Tables


The Legend of the Khantaika



Evenkis in the Lower Yenisei valley


Arrival


The road to the Khantaika


Evenkis and Dolgans


Mapping the tundra



The Number One Reindeer Brigade


The most Evenki brigade


Herders and tundroviki


An Evenki pedagogy


State nomadism



Feeding the Village


Building collectives


Industrial parochialism


The 'villagers'


National rivalry



The State Ethnographers


Sparse peoples and the Russian state


Soviet ethnography and the 'origin' of Dolgans


Taimyr's 'wondrous mosaic'



National Inflation


Authorized and relational identities


The circulation of identities


Inflationary strategies



Sentient Ecology


Knowing the land


'The old people travelled everywhere'



Exclusive Territories


Territorial formations


The puzzle of privatization



Divergent Trajectories


Clans, surnames, and the eclipse of extensive kinship


National endogamy


Belonging to a kollektiv


Finding relatives



Three Senses of Belonging on the Khantaika


National identity and belonging


Wild meat and the wild market


Departure



Genealogical Charts


References


Index