Description |
1 online resource (xii, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Chapter 1. The Polar Census and the Architecture of Enumeration -- Chapter 2. Seasonal Mobility and Sacred Landscape Geography among Northern Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 3. The Intepretation of Nenets Demography in the First Third of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. Undaunted Courage: The Polar Census in the Obdor Region -- Chapter 5. Household Structure in the Multiethnic Barents Region: A Local Case Study -- Chapter 6. Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question -- Chapter 7. The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia, 1926-1927 -- Chapter 8. The Origins of Reindeer Herding as a 'Sector' on the Kanin Peninsula -- Chapter 9. The Spatial Demography of the 'Outer Taiga' of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia -- Chapter 10. Identity, Status and Fish Among Lake Essei Iakuts -- Chapter 11. Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands in 1926-27 |
Summary |
"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian Indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project." * Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution. In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Ethnological expeditions -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History -- 20th century
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Ethnological expeditions -- Russia, Northern -- History -- 20th century
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Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Census
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Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Social life and customs
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Indigenous peoples -- Russia, Northern -- Social life and customs
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Indigenous peoples -- Russia, Northern -- Census
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Discoveries in geography
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Ethnological expeditions
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Indigenous peoples
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Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs
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SUBJECT |
Russia, Northern -- Census
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Russia, Northern -- Discovery and exploration
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Siberia (Russia) -- Census
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Siberia (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Northern Russia
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Genre/Form |
Census data
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Anderson, David G. (David George), 1965- editor.
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LC no. |
2010051903 |
ISBN |
9780857450449 |
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0857450441 |
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