Komi Reindeer Herders: Syncretic and Pragmatic Notions of Being in the Tundra

In line with the general thematic focus of this volume, this chapter aims to examine how contemporary Komi reindeer-herding communities living in the northern part of European Russia understand and engage with the landscape. Christianity was already well established among Komi communities when they took up a transhumant way of life in the late 17^th and early 18^th centuries, and began moving out onto the unknown and in many ways alien landscapes of the tundra during seasonal migrations.