1st Edition
The Siberian World
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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Introduction: Introduction to the Siberian World
John P. Ziker1, Jenanne Ferguson2, and Vladimir Davydov3
Part 1: Indigenous Language Revival and Cultural Change
1. Language Vitality and Sustainability: Minority Indigenous Languages in the Sakha Republic
Lenore A. Grenoble, Antonina A. Vinokurova, Elena V. Nesterova
2. (Socio)linguistic Outcomes of Social Reorganization in Chukotka
Jessica Kantarovich
3. Kŋaloz’a’n Ujeret’i’n Ŋetełkila’n – Keepers of the Native Hearth: The Social Life of the Itelmen Language – Documentation and Revitalization
Tatiana Degai, David Koester, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Chikako Ono
4. The Phenomenology of Riverine Names and Hydrological Maps among Siberian Evenki
Nadezhda Mamontova, Thomas F. Thornton, Elena Klyachko
5. The Tundra Nenets’ Fire Rites, or What is Hidden Inside of the Nenets Female Needlework Bag Tutsya?
Roza Laptander
6. Transformations of Cooking Technologies, Spatial Displacement, and Food Nostalgia in Chukotka
Elena A. Davydova
Part 2: Land, Law, and Ecology
7. Customary Law Today: Mechanisms of Sustainable Development of Indigenous Peoples
Natalya Novikova
8. Indigenous Land Rights and Land Use in Siberia: Neighboring Jurisdictions, Varied Approaches
Viktoriya Filippova, Gail Fondahl, Antonina Savvinova
9. Evenki "False" Accounts: Supplies and Reindeer in an Indigenous Enterprise
Tatiana Safonova and Istvan Santha
10. Climate Change through the Eyes of Yamal Reindeer Herders
Alexandra Terekhina, Alexander Volkovitskiy
11. Nature on the Move: Boreal Forest, Permafrost, and Pastoral Strategies of Sakha People
Hiroki Takakura
12. Fluctuating Human-Animal Relations: Soiot Herder-Hunters of South-Central Siberia
Alex C. Oehler
13. Ecology and Culture: Two Case Studies of Empirical Knowledge among Katanga Evenkis of Eastern Siberia
Karl Mertens
Part 3: Co-Creation of People and the State
14. Dancing with Cranes, Singing to Gods: The Sakha Yhyakh and Post-Soviet National Revival
Eleanor Peers,
15. Double-Edged Publicity: The Youth Movement in the 2000s Buryatia
Hibi Y. Watanabe
16. Soviet Debris: Failure and the Poetics of Unfinished Construction in Northern Siberia
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
17. Local Gender Contracts and the Production of Traditionality in Siberian Old Believer Places
Danila Rygovskiy
18. Arctic LNG Production and the State (the case of Yamal Peninsula)
Ksenia Gavrilova
19. Biography of Alcohol in the Arctic Village
Anastasiia A. Yarzutkina
20. Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Trade
Aimar Ventsel
21. Longitudinal Ethnography and Changing Social Networks
Susan Crate
Part 4: Formal and Grassroots Infrastructure and Siberian Mobility
22. Evenki Hunters’ and Reindeer Herders’ Mobility: Transformation of Autonomy Regimes
Vladimir N. Davydov
23. The Infrastructure of Food Distribution: Translocal Dagestani Migrants in Western Siberia
Ekaterina Kapustina
24. Development Cycles of Cities in the Siberian North
Nadezhda Zamyatina
25. What Difference Does a Railroad Make? Transportation and Settlement in the BAM Region in Historical Perspective
Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer
26. Stuck in Between: Transportation Infrastructure, Corporate Social Responsibility and the State in a Small Siberian Oil Town
Gertrude Saxinger, Natalia Krasnoshtanova, Gertraud Illmeier
27. Hidden Dimensions of Clandestine Fishery: A Misfortune Topology Based on Scenarios of Failures
Lidia Rakhmanova
28. Infrastructural Brokers in a Logistical Cul-de-sac: Taimyr’s Wild Winter Road Drivers
Valeria Vasilyeva
29. Ice Roads and Floating Shops: The Seasonal Variations and Landscape of Mobility in Northwest Siberia
Mikhail G. Agapov
Part 5: Religious Mosaics in Siberia
30 Contemporary Shamanic and Spiritual Practices in the City of Yakutsk
Lena A. Sidorova,
31.The Making of Altaian Nationalism: Indigenous Intelligentsia, Oirot Prophecy, and Socialist Autonomy, 1904-1922
Andrei Znamenski
32. Missionaries in the Russian Arctic: Religious and ideological changes among Nenets reindeer herders
Laur Vallikivi
33. Nanai post-Soviet Shamanism: "true" shamans among the "neo-shamans"
Tatiana Bulgakova
34 Feeding the Gi’rgir at Kilvei: An exploration of human-reindeer-ancestor relations among the Siberian Chukchi
Jeanette Lykkegård
35. Feasts and Festivals among Contemporary Siberian Communities
Stephan Dudeck
36. Animals as a Reflection of the Universe Structure in the Culture of Oka Buryats and Soyots
Veronika Beliaeva-Sachuk
Part 6: Conceptions of History
37. Economics of the Santan Trade: Profit of the Nivkh and Ul’chi traders in Northeast Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Shiro Sasaki
38. Power, Ritual, and Art in the Siberian Ice Age: The Collection of Ornamented Artifacts as Evidence of Prestige Technology
Liudmila Lbova, Tatyana Rostyazhenko
39.Archaeology of Shamanism in Siberian Prehistory
Feng Qu
40. Rock art research in Southeast Siberia: a history of ideas and ethnographic interpretations
Donatas Brandišauskas
41. A History of Siberian Ethnography
Anna Sirina
42. Cycles of Change: Seasonality in the Environmental History of Siberia
Spencer Abbe and Ryan Jones
Biography
John P. Ziker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, USA. His work focuses on social networks, climate change, and demography.
Jenanne Ferguson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her work in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology focuses on Indigenous and minority language revitalization, urbanization and globalization, and linguistic creativity/verbal art.
Vladimir Davydov is Deputy Director for Science at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg and research fellow in the Chukotka branch of North-Eastern Federal University, Anadyr, Russia. His work focuses on mobility, infrastructure, human–animal relations, reindeer herding, anthropology of food, and the history of Siberian ethnography.
