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Titolo |
The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David G. Anderson |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
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1-78238-098-1 |
0-85745-044-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indigenous peoples - Russia, Northern |
Indigenous peoples - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Ethnological expeditions - Russia, Northern - History - 20th century |
Ethnological expeditions - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - History - 20th century |
Indigenous peoples - Russia, Northern - Social life and customs |
Indigenous peoples - Russia (Federation) - Siberia - Social life and customs |
Electronic books. |
Russia, Northern Discovery and exploration |
Russia, Northern Census |
Siberia (Russia) Discovery and exploration |
Siberia (Russia) Census |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on Cyrillic Transliteration; 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 |
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Chapter 7 - The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia, 1926-1927Chapter 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; Appendix 1 - The Manuscript Archives of the Polar Census Expeditions; Appendix 2 - Table of Measures; Archival References; Bibliography |
Notes on the ContributorsIndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local geographers and ethnographers, the Polar Census grew into a massive ethnological exercise, gathering not only basic demographic and economic data on every household but also a rich archive of photographs, maps, kinship charts, narrative transcripts and museum artifacts. To this day, |
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