ABSTRACT
The Siberian World provides a window into 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 the 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.
Chapter 25 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|92 pages
Indigenous Language Revival and Cultural Change
chapter Chapter 1|16 pages
Language vitality and sustainability
chapter Chapter 3|15 pages
Kŋaloz'a'n Ujeret'i'n Ŋetełkila'n—Keepers of the Native Hearth
chapter Chapter 4|17 pages
The phenomenology of riverine names and hydrological maps among Siberian Evenki
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
The tundra Nenets' fire rites, or what is hidden inside of the Nenets female needlework bag tutsya ?
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
Transformations of cooking technologies, spatial displacement, and food nostalgia in Chukotka
part II|96 pages
Land, Law, and Ecology
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Customary law today
chapter Chapter 8|17 pages
Indigenous land rights and land use in Siberia
chapter Chapter 11|13 pages
Nature-on-the-move
chapter Chapter 12|13 pages
Fluctuating human-animal relations
chapter Chapter 13|12 pages
Ecology and culture
part III|106 pages
Co-Creation of People and the State
chapter Chapter 14|13 pages
Dancing with cranes, singing to gods
chapter Chapter 16|15 pages
Soviet Debris
chapter Chapter 17|12 pages
Local gender contracts and the production of traditionality in Siberian Old Believer places
part IV|106 pages
Formal and Grassroots Infrastructure and Siberian Mobility
chapter Chapter 22|15 pages
Evenki hunters' and reindeer herders' mobility
chapter Chapter 23|12 pages
The infrastructure of food distribution
chapter Chapter 25|14 pages
What difference does a railroad make?
chapter Chapter 26|15 pages
Stuck in between
chapter Chapter 27|12 pages
Hidden dimensions of clandestine fishery
chapter Chapter 28|11 pages
Infrastructural brokers in a logistical cul-de-sac
chapter Chapter 29|13 pages
Ice roads and floating shops
part V|100 pages
Religious Mosaics in Siberia
chapter Chapter 31|15 pages
The making of Altaian nationalism
chapter Chapter 32|14 pages
Missionaries in the Russian Arctic
chapter Chapter 34|13 pages
Feeding the gi'rgir at Kilvei
chapter Chapter 36|12 pages
Animals as a reflection of the universe structure in the culture of Oka Buryats and Soiots
part VI|94 pages
Conceptions of History