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The advent of perestroika and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union have had an enormous impact on indigenous peoples in the Russian Arctic. This book illuminates many of the cultural, political, and economic issues guiding Russian state policy toward Siberian indigenous peoples. Growing from a report submitted to the Russian parliament, it became a major building block for new legislation on the treatment of Northern minority peoples in post-Soviet Russia. Seven translators in North America, under the coordination of Bruce Grant, have edited and annotated the original Russian text, published in 1994. They have added translations of selected recent legislation affecting Siberian indigenous peoples, a guide to Russian and Siberian terms, and photographs taken by Pika on his trips to Siberia. Boris Prokhorov addresses the changing conditions for post-Soviet research in a moving new Afterword. Aleksandr Pika, who died in 1995, was one of Russia's leading anthropologists. Bruce Grant is associate professor of anthropology at Swarthmore College.Boris Prokhorov is head of the Center for Demography and Human Ecology at the Institute of National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Read more

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Interesting and timeless
Aleksandr Pika is a great northern anthropologist, and I am greatful that his work has been translated into English.This book is an excellent study of USSR policy as it has affected (and continues to affect) NativeSiberians. ... Read more

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Title: Impacts of climate change on the sustainable development of traditional lifestyles on the indigenous peoples of the Russian North: towards the development of an integrated scheme of assessment.
Author: Pavel Sulyandziga
Publication: Northern Review (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2001
Publisher: Northern Review
Issue: 24Page: 200-7

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Including the Russian Far East, the population of Siberia numbers just above 40 million people. As a result of the 17th to 19th century Russian conquest of Siberia and the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era, the demographics of Siberia today is dominated by native speakers of Russian. There remain a considerable number of indigenous groups, between them accounting for below 10% of total Siberian population. Many of the individual groups are close to extinction, or in the process of assimilation "Russification". ... Read more

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Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem health, something global culture is trying to rediscover under the label of sustainability.

A spiritual resource for sustainable living, this poem records the testimony of a shaman from the nomadic people of Northern Siberia, and then tells a Russian folk-tale derived from the animistic, shamanic world view.The indigenous voice tells of the struggle with the land for survival, the need to preserve traditional ways, the need to survive predation amid surrounding cultures, and the need to leave a permanent mark,

Like a notch in the surface of heaven
Or the flight of a bird when it is gone.

Jabez L. Van Cleef takes foundational texts from many oral traditions and religions and creates a common poetic format to preserve, promote and disseminate the values of these cultures. For more information visit www.sustainyourspirit.com ... Read more

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Patty Gray explores why the local Chukotko people's "indigenous rights movement," which asserts that Chukotko people should enjoy a privileged cultural or political space, has been unsuccessful.Gray analyzes the movement as a continuation of Soviet tendencies rather than something comparable to Native Rights movements in the Russian Far North. She argues that the intellectuals leading the movement are dominantly urban and educated at Soviet schools, while the population they represent is largely rural and poorly educated. ... Read more

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The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly, with the interaction of the nomads with their sedentary neighbours - the Kievan Rus' state and the mediaeval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular - in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Secondly, it looks at questions of nomadic ethnogenesis (Oghuz, Hungarian, Qipchaq) at the evolution of nomadic political traditions and the heritage of the Turk empire, and at aspects of indigenous nomadic religious traditions together with the impact of foreign religions on the nomads - notably the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins that played a crucial role in the history of Christian Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia and the Muslim world between the 11th and 13th centuries. ... Read more

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Useful reference book for those intereste in the early medieval history of the Eastern Europ
Author is well known and highly reputable specialist on the the early medieval Eastern Europe, and various turcic nomads, who shaped to the large extend the history of this region. The present issue is a collection of the articles published by author in various academic journals and compendiums on the subject. Unfortunately publisher had chosen not to reset the text, but used photocopies of the articles, which looks rather shoddy for the book at this price. Book would be of interest for specialists, students, and amateurs interested in the history of the Black Sea-Caspian steppe region, and interaction of the turcic nomads with thier nieghbours: Eastern Slavs, Byzantium, etc. ... Read more

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The Battles of Sitka (1802 and 1804) were seminal events in the history of the Tlingit people, the multicultural history of Alaska, and, ultimately, in the history of America. Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka / Russians in Tlingit America covers the period from the first arrival of European and American fur traders in Tlingit territory to the establishment of a permanent Russian presence in the Pacific Northwest, presenting transcriptions and English translations of Tlingit oral traditions recorded almost fifty years ago and translations of newly available Russian historical documents. Although independent in origin and transmission, these accounts support one another to a remarkable degree on the main historical points.The Tlingit-Russian conflict is usually presented as a confrontation between "whites," with superior arms, and brave but outnumbered and poorly armed natives. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Tlingits saw themselves as victors even as they formally ceded to the Russians the site of their village and fort, now known as Sitka.Setting aside ancient rules of story ownership, a new generation of Tlingit clan leaders have decided to publish the stories told by their ancestors so that the Tlingit point of view would be known and succeeding generations would not forget their people's history.Including Russian historical documents, travellers' accounts of informal interactions between the formerly warring parties after the battles, and Dr. W. Schuhmacher's work on the role played by British and American skippers, Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka inquires into and provides some answers to the fundamental question, who owns history? Photographs of objects now in Russian and American museums - from the favorite battle hammer of Tlingit war chief Katlian to the metal ceremonial hat Baranov commissioned for the peace ceremony - enrich the book, along with portraits of key historical figures and eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century charts of Tlingit territory. Also included is the journal of Dmitrii Tarkhanov, a gazetteer, glossary, Tlingit and Russian name lists, and an index. ... Read more

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Russian America
Superbly: researched, written, illustrated, edited and footnoted.Loaded with fascinating newly uncovered information about Baranov and Russian America. I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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Great, if slightly disappointing, news
A complete thrill to have so many new documents translated from the Russian; letters, orders, diaries; all the stuff that makes historians dance. However, the author doesn't know the overall field well enough, and it shows.
Definitely worth reading, but don't take it as the final word. ... Read more

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Koriak have been described as a nomadic people, migrating with the reindeer through rugged terrain. Their autonomy and mobility are salient cultural features that ethnographers and state administrators have found equally fascinating and menacing. Tundra Passages describes how this indigenous people in the Russian Far East have experienced, interpreted, and struggled with the changing conditions of life on the periphery of post-Soviet Russia. Rethmann portrays the lives of Koriak women in the locales of Tymlat and Ossora in northern Kamchatka, within a wider framework of sexuality, state power, and marginalization, which she sees as central to the Koriak experience of everyday life. Using gender as a lens through which to examine wider issues of history, disempowerment, and marginalization, she explores the interpretations and strategies employed by Koriak women and men to ameliorate the austere effects of political and socioeconomic disorder. Rethmann's innovative work combines historical and ethnographic descriptions of Koriak life, narration, and practices of gender and history.With the demise of the Soviet Union, scholars have begun an active discussion of the political processes that affect marginalized and indigenous peoples in Russia. This work contributes to this discussion by revealing the tensions and potentially contradictory strategies of indigenous people within a world shaken by change, uncertainty, and disorder. ... Read more

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TEXTBOOK
THIS BOOK WAS RECOMMENDED BY AMAZON. I THINK THIS WAS BECAUSE I BOUGHT SEVERAL BOOKS ON ALASKAN WILDERNESS AND NATIVES. I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WOULD BE AN INTERESTING NATIVE CONTINUUM.

THE DESCRIPTION GIVEN ON THE AMAZON WEBSITE WAS ACCURATE BUT INCOMPLETE.

THE BOOK IS A STIFFLY WRITTEN TEXTBOOK STUDY WITH MANY STUDY REFERENCES. THE PICTURES ARE POOR. THE PRINT IS SMALL. THE WRITING NEEDS EDITING.

THERE IS A LOT OF REFERENCE TO POLITICS AND COMMUNISM.


IF I HAD THIS REVIEW OR A BETTER GLANCE THROUGH THE BOOK FIRST, I WOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT IT.

A glimpse of life in a Russian Arctic village
Anna Kerttula was the first American anthropologist to conduct long-term fieldwork in Chukotka, which is located in eastern Russia just across the Bering Strait from Alaska. She comes from a background that gives her a unique and very valuable perspective on Chukotka: she was raised in a rural Alaskan family, and visited many Alaskan Inuit and Yup'ik villages as a child. All that time, she was acutely aware of the presence of Chukotka and its Native villages just out of reach beyond what was dubbed the "ice curtain" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. She dreamed of going there, and was finally able to do so as a graduate student in anthropology. In the Soviet period, because Chukotka was so close to the United States, it was a carefully-guarded closed region -- even Russians had to have special permission to travel there. Kerttula began her fieldwork in the village of Sireniki on Chukotka's coast in 1989, two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, so she had the rare opportunity to experience life there before the drastic changes that came in the 1990s. She describes for us many different aspects of the lives of the Yup'iks, Chukchis, and Russian "Newcomers" who live in this village -- their occupations of reindeer herding and sea mammal hunting for the Soviet collective farm in the village; their ideas about social relationships, marriage and family, etc.; the symbolic importance of the tundra and the sea. It is a fascinating glimpse of daily life on the eve of the Soviet Union's demise. This is an excellent introduction for anyone interested in the Russian Arctic (a.k.a. Siberia)-- it is well-written, accessible, and full of fascintating profiles of the inhabitants of this small village. Lots of good black and white photos, too. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 682 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 825 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Russian Life, published by Russian Information Services, Inc. on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1910 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Under my chum.(Essay)
Author: Nikolai Gernet
Publication: Russian Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Russian Information Services, Inc.
Volume: 52Issue: 1Page: 28(8)

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Chapters as follows: Preface; Introduction by Jens Dahl; Declaration of the Congress of the Small peoples o f the North; Statutes of the Association of the Small Peoples of the Soviet North; Programme of the Association of the Small Peoples of the North of the Soviet Union ... Read more