The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David G. Anderson

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.609
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Russia, Northern Discovery and exploration; Russia, Northern Census; Siberia (Russia) Discovery and exploration; Siberia (Russia) Census
• Altri autori: AndersonDavid G
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: The 1926
• ISBN: 1-78238-098-1; 0-85745-044-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781222303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II