Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia The

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 study addresses questions of identity, nationalism, and ecological theory, as well as mapping the changes caused in the region by the formation of and the recent break-up of the Soviet Union.

List of Plates
List of Charts
List of Maps
List of Tables
The Legend of the Khantaika
Evenkis in the Lower Yenisei valley	p. 1
Arrival	p. 1
The road to the Khantaika	p. 4
Evenkis and Dolgans	p. 6
Mapping the tundra	p. 11
The Number One Reindeer Brigade	p. 18
The most Evenki brigade	p. 18
Herders and tundroviki	p. 27
An Evenki pedagogy	p. 33
State nomadism	p. 37
Feeding the Village	p. 43
Building collectives	p. 44
Industrial parochialism	p. 55
The 'villagers'	p. 64
National rivalry	p. 67
The State Ethnographers	p. 74
Sparse peoples and the Russian state	p. 75
Soviet ethnography and the 'origin' of Dolgans	p. 81
Taimyr's 'wondrous mosaic'	p. 90
National Inflation	p. 97
Authorized and relational identities	p. 98
The circulation of identities	p. 100
Inflationary strategies	p. 109
Sentient Ecology	p. 116
Knowing the land	p. 117
'The old people travelled everywhere'	p. 131
Exclusive Territories	p. 148
Territorial formations	p. 148
The puzzle of privatization	p. 160
Divergent Trajectories	p. 171
Clans, surnames, and the eclipse of extensive kinship	p. 172
National endogamy	p. 181
Belonging to a kollektiv	p. 187
Finding relatives	p. 194
Three Senses of Belonging on the Khantaika	p. 201
National identity and belonging	p. 202
Wild meat and the wild market	p. 211
Departure	p. 216
Genealogical Charts	p. 219
References	p. 224
Index	p. 244
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Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia The Number One Reindeer Brigade

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