ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how sedentarizing nomads work in practice, more specifically, how it worked in the remote parts of the boreal forest of the Soviet Union in the 1940's and 1950's. It focuses on the reindeer nomad's comments on how their spatial practices are subject to state-instigated change. The chapter seeks to develop the concept of 'socialist land enclosure' and complement it with the idea of cognitive enclosure, by which the author means the very palpable consequences of sedentarization on people's perception of space and skills of movement. It returns to the photographs, discussing some elementary - in fact, corporeal - consequences of making people 'sedentary'. The chapter demonstrates how the bureaucratic compartmentalization of nomadic space comes along with changes in skills and, importantly, the very perception of space. For these forms of compartmentalization of the everyday world, the author uses the term cognitive enclosure.
