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.
Author(s): John P. Ziker, Jenanne Ferguson, Vladimir Davydov
Series: Routledge Worlds
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 653
City: London
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I Indigenous Language Revival and Cultural Change
Chapter 1 Language vitality and sustainability: Minority Indigenous languages in the Sakha Republic
Chapter 2 (Socio)linguistic outcomes of social reorganization in Chukotka
Chapter 3 Kŋaloz’a’n Ujeret’i’n Ŋetełkila’n—Keepers of the Native Hearth: The social life of the Itelmen language—documentation and revitalization
Chapter 4 The phenomenology of riverine names and hydrological maps among Siberian Evenki
Chapter 5 The tundra Nenets’ fire rites, or what is hidden inside of the Nenets female needlework bag tutsya?
Chapter 6 Transformations of cooking technologies, spatial displacement, and food nostalgia in Chukotka
Part II Land, Law, and Ecology
Chapter 7 Customary law today: Mechanisms of sustainable development of Indigenous peoples
Chapter 8 Indigenous land rights and land use in Siberia: Neighboring jurisdictions, varied approaches
Chapter 9 Evenki “false” accounts: Supplies and reindeer in an Indigenous enterprise
Chapter 10 Climate change through the eyes of Yamal reindeer herders
Chapter 11 Nature-on-the-move: Boreal forest, permafrost, and pastoral strategies of Sakha people
Chapter 12 Fluctuating human-animal relations: Soiot herder-hunters of South-Central Siberia
Chapter 13 Ecology and culture: Two case studies of empirical knowledge among Katanga Evenkis of Eastern Siberia
Part III Co-Creation of People and the State
Chapter 14 Dancing with cranes, singing to gods: The Sakha Yhyakh and post-Soviet national revival
Chapter 15 Double-edged publicity: The youth movement in Buryatia in the 2000s
Chapter 16 Soviet Debris: Failure and the poetics of unfinished construction in Northern Siberia
Chapter 17 Local gender contracts and the production of traditionality in Siberian Old Believer places
Chapter 18 Arctic LNG production and the state (the case of Yamal Peninsula)
Chapter 19 Biography of alcohol in the Arctic village
Chapter 20 Sanctioned and unsanctioned trade
Chapter 21 Longitudinal ethnography and changing social networks
Part IV Formal and Grassroots Infrastructure and Siberian Mobility
Chapter 22 Evenki hunters’ and reindeer herders’ mobility: Transformation of autonomy regimes
Chapter 23 The infrastructure of food distribution: Translocal Dagestani migrants in Western Siberia
Chapter 24 Development cycles of cities in the Siberian North
Chapter 25 What difference does a railroad make?: Transportation and settlement in the BAM region in historical perspective
Chapter 26 Stuck in between: Transportation infrastructure, corporate social responsibility, and the state in a small Siberian oil town
Chapter 27 Hidden dimensions of clandestine fishery: A misfortune topology based on scenarios of failures
Chapter 28 Infrastructural brokers in a logistical cul-de-sac: Taimyr’s wild winter road drivers
Chapter 29 Ice roads and floating shops: The seasonal variations and landscape of mobility in Northwest Siberia
Part V Religious Mosaics in Siberia
Chapter 30 Contemporary shamanic and spiritual practices in the city of Yakutsk
Chapter 31 The making of Altaian nationalism: Indigenous intelligentsia, Oirot prophecy, and socialist autonomy, 1904–1922
Chapter 32 Missionaries in the Russian Arctic: Religious and ideological changes among Nenets reindeer herders
Chapter 33 Nanai post-Soviet Shamanism: “True” shamans among the “neo-shamans”
Chapter 34 Feeding the gi’rgir at Kilvei: An exploration of human-reindeer-ancestor relations among the Siberian Chukchi
Chapter 35 Feasts and festivals among contemporary Siberian communities
Chapter 36 Animals as a reflection of the universe structure in the culture of Oka Buryats and Soiots
Part VI Conceptions of History
Chapter 37 Economics of the Santan trade: Profit of the Nivkh and Ul’chi traders in Northeast Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries
Chapter 38 Power, ritual, and art in the Siberian Ice Age: The collection of ornamented artifacts as evidence of prestige technology
Chapter 39 Archaeology of shamanism in Siberian prehistory
Chapter 40 Rock art research in Southeast Siberia: A history of ideas and ethnographic interpretations
Chapter 41 A history of Siberian ethnography
Chapter 42 Cycles of change: Seasonality in the environmental history of Siberia
Index
