Siberian Village
Title | Siberian Village PDF eBook |
Author | Bella Bychkova Jordan |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Dzharkhan (Russia) |
ISBN | 9781452904740 |
The Yakut
Title | The Yakut PDF eBook |
Author | Waldemar Jochelson |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2018-06-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3942883929 |
As the first significant anthropological descriptions of northeastern Siberia, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked not only the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work The Yakut, for which he draw on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the northeastern Siberia.
Sakha (Yakut) Republic, Russia
Title | Sakha (Yakut) Republic, Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Business Information Agency Staff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2001-03-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781590649695 |
Russia's Diamond Colony
Title | Russia's Diamond Colony PDF eBook |
Author | John Tichotsky |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2014-01-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134413939 |
This study looks at the reform process in Sakha and at a one hundred year history of economic development. The research revealed that Sakha's progress has always been determined by the export of key resources.
Galvanizing Nostalgia?
Title | Galvanizing Nostalgia? PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2022-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501759795 |
Galvanizing Nostalgia? explores critical questions for the survival of Russia in its nominally federal form. Will Russia fall apart along the lines of its internal republics, as did the Soviet Union? Based on cultural anthropology field and historical research in major republics of Eastern Siberia—Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, and Tyva (Tuva)—this book highlights Indigenous concerns about self-determination. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer suggests that a fragile and disorganized dynamic of nested sovereignties has developed within Russia. Ecology activism has grown, given new threats to the environment and accelerating climate challenges, especially in the Arctic. Focus on strategically chosen republics enables comparing and contrasting interethnic relations, language politics, and the salience of gender, demography, resource competition, environmental degradation, and increased spirituality. Republics vary in their neocolonial relationships to Moscow authorities. Some local leaders, such as a politicized shaman, use nostalgia for cultural achievements to galvanize citizens. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, cultural and political revitalization have been relatively more viable, although still difficult, in areas where Siberians have their own republics.
The Russian Federation
Title | The Russian Federation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780379002782 |
Shamanism
Title | Shamanism PDF eBook |
Author | Piers Vitebsky |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780806133287 |
From the snowscapes of Siberia to the jungles of the Amazon, this book explores the role of the shaman as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of the spirits. 250 illustrations, many in color. 25 maps.