Title The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions / edited by David G. Anderson

Published New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2011

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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 Ethnological expeditions -- Russia, Northern -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Census Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Social life and customs Indigenous peoples -- Russia, Northern -- Social life and customs Indigenous peoples -- Russia, Northern -- Census SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography. HISTORY -- General. Discoveries in geography Ethnological expeditions Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Russia, Northern -- Census Russia, Northern -- Discovery and exploration Siberia (Russia) -- Census Siberia (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration Subject Russia (Federation) -- Siberia Northern Russia Genre/Form Census data History Form Electronic book Author Anderson, David G. (David George), 1965- editor. LC no. 2010051903 ISBN 9780857450449 0857450441

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