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Andrei V. Golovnev - Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story - 9780801436314 - V9780801436314
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Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story

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Description for Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 72. BIC Classification: 1FCS; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 518.

The Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia is one of the few remaining places on earth where a nomadic people retain a traditional culture. Here in the tundra, the Nenets—one of the few indigenous minorities of the Russian North—follow a lifestyle shaped by the seasonal migrations of the reindeer they herd. For decades under Soviet rule, they weathered harsh policies designed to subjugate them. How the Nenets successfully resisted indoctrination from a powerful totalitarian state and how today they face new challenges to the survival of their culture—these are the subjects of this compelling and lavishly illustrated book.

The authors—one the ... Read more

Today, the Yamal is known for a new reason: it is the site of one of the world's largest natural gas deposits. The authors discuss the dangers Russian and Western developers present to the Nenets people and recommend policies for land use which will help to preserve this remarkable culture.

For information on the documentaries about life—both human and animal—above the Arctic Circle that Andrei V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko have made, visit www.filmsfromthenorth.com.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801436314
SKU
V9780801436314
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Andrei V. Golovnev
Andrei V. Golovonev is Senior Field Anthropologist at the Institute of History and Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Ekaterinburg and an award-winning ethnographic film maker. Gail Osherenko is an Associate of the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is coeditor, with Oran R. Young, of Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes, also ... Read more

Reviews for Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story
Compelling... A deceptively short, well-illustrated, and suberbly edited book.
Alternatives Journal
Andrei V. Golovnev and Gail Osherenko... seek to understand the Nenets and 'their phenomenal capacity to keep their... culture, language and lifestyle' after four centuries of Russian Rule. Behind this, generally encouraging, story lurks the problem of local sources of natural gas and oil, the exploration and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story


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