Siberian Survival Hardcover 1

Andrei V. Golovnev

The Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia is one of the few remaining places on earth where a nomadic people retain a traditional culture. Here in the tundra, the Nenets-one of the few indigenous minorities of the Russian North-follow a lifestyle shaped by the seasonal migrations of the reindeer they herd. For decades under Soviet rule, they weathered harsh policies designed to subjugate them. How the Nenets successfully resisted indoctrination from a powerful totalitarian state and how today they face new challenges to the survival of their culture-these are the subjects of this compelling and lavishly illustrated book.The authors-one the head of a team of Russian ethnographers who have spent many seasons on the peninsula, the other an American attorney specializing in issues affecting the Arctic-introduce the rich culture of the Nenets.

9780801436314

English

Cornell University Press

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Andrei V. Golovonev is Senior Field Anthropologist at the Institute of History and Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Ekaterinburg and an award-winning ethnographic film maker. Gail Osherenko is an Associate of the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is coeditor, with Oran R. Young, of Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes, also from Cornell.

Gail Osherenko

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