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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789533603321

Autore

Wiget Andrew

Titolo

Khanty, People of the Taiga [[electronic resource] ] : Surviving the 20th Century

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, 2011

ISBN

1-60223-125-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BalalaevaOlga

Disciplina

305.89

305.89451

Soggetti

Khanty -- Cultural assimilation

Khanty -- Ethnic identity

Khanty -- Social conditions

Reindeer herders -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia

Taigas -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia

Khanty - Ethnic identity - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Khanty - Cultural assimilation - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Khanty - Social conditions - Siberia - Russia (Federation)

Taigas - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Reindeer herders - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Russia & Former Soviet Republics

Electronic books.

Russia (Federation) Siberia

Siberie (Russie) Conditions sociales

Siberie (Russie) Relations interethniques

Siberia (Russia) Social conditions

Siberia (Russia) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures; Note on Spelling, Pronunciation, and Usage; Preface; 1. Iugra; 2. Iakh and Sir; 3. Traditions; 4. Transformations; 5. Kurlomkin:



Taiga Hunter; 6. Kanterov: Muskeg Reindeer Herder; 7. Black Snow; 8. Land, Leadership, and Community; 9. Accommodation, Resistance, and Resilience; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty-who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution-the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the lar.