ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that in addition to analysing the big waves of development, the implications of technological change can be understood for the people best through narratives, told as a part of people's life histories. It makes this link between what the author call narratives of adaptation and innovation that reveals how Nenets nomads participate in technological change, and the analysis of how their involvement in these waves of change also alters the very notion of their homeland Yamal, the end of the world. These ideas become important for further theoretical understanding of information flows and flows of nomadic movement as mutually fruitful conversations in a field of increased global integration. The chapter attempts to show how the narratives of the innovation and adoption of the mobile technologies among nomads are based on both experience and memory and change people's way of perceiving their surroundings.
