The Siberian World

The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure. Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The chapters examine a variety of interconnected themes, including language revitalization, legal pluralism, ecology, trade, religion, climate change, and co-creation of practices and identities with state programs and policies. The book’s ethnographically rich contributions highlight Indigenous voices, important theoretical concepts, and practices. The material connects with wider discussions of perception of the environment, climate change, cultural and linguistic change, urbanization, Indigenous rights, Arctic politics, globalization, and sustainability/resilience. The Siberian World will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental history, political science, and sociology.

Introduction: Introduction to the Siberian World John P. Ziker1, Jenanne Ferguson2, and Vladimir Davydov3 Part 1: Indigenous Language Revival and Cultural Change 1. Language Vitality and Sustainability: Minority Indigenous Languages in the Sakha Republic Lenore A. Grenoble, Antonina A. Vinokurova, Elena V. Nesterova 2. (Socio)linguistic Outcomes of Social Reorganization in Chukotka Jessica Kantarovich 3. K?aloz’a’n Ujeret’i’n ?etelkila’n – Keepers of the Native Hearth: The Social Life of the Itelmen Language – Documentation and Revitalization Tatiana Degai, David Koester, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Chikako Ono 4. The Phenomenology of Riverine Names and Hydrological Maps among Siberian Evenki Nadezhda Mamontova, Thomas F. Thornton, Elena Klyachko 5. The Tundra Nenets’ Fire Rites, or What is Hidden Inside of the Nenets Female Needlework Bag Tutsya? Roza Laptander 6. Transformations of Cooking Technologies, Spatial Displacement, and Food Nostalgia in Chukotka Elena A. Davydova Part 2: Land, Law, and Ecology 7. Customary Law Today: Mechanisms of Sustainable Development of Indigenous Peoples Natalya Novikova 8. Indigenous Land Rights and Land Use in Siberia: Neighboring Jurisdictions, Varied Approaches Viktoriya Filippova, Gail Fondahl, Antonina Savvinova 9. Evenki "False" Accounts: Supplies and Reindeer in an Indigenous Enterprise Tatiana Safonova and Istvan Santha 10. Climate Change through the Eyes of Yamal Reindeer Herders Alexandra Terekhina, Alexander Volkovitskiy 11. Nature on the Move: Boreal Forest, Permafrost, and Pastoral Strategies of Sakha People Hiroki Takakura 12. Fluctuating Human-Animal Relations: Soiot Herder-Hunters of South-Central Siberia Alex C. Oehler 13. Ecology and Culture: Two Case Studies of Empirical Knowledge among Katanga Evenkis of Eastern Siberia Karl Mertens Part 3: Co-Creation of People and the State 14. Dancing with Cranes, Singing to Gods: The Sakha Yhyakh and Post-Soviet National Revival Eleanor Peers, 15. Double-Edged Publicity: The Youth Movement in the 2000s Buryatia Hibi Y. Watanabe 16. Soviet Debris: Failure and the Poetics of Unfinished Construction in Northern Siberia Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov 17. Local Gender Contracts and the Production of Traditionality in Siberian Old Believer Places Danila Rygovskiy 18. Arctic LNG Production and the State (the case of Yamal Peninsula) Ksenia Gavrilova 19. Biography of Alcohol in the Arctic Village Anastasiia A. Yarzutkina 20. Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Trade Aimar Ventsel 21. Longitudinal Ethnography and Changing Social Networks Susan Crate Part 4: Formal and Grassroots Infrastructure and Siberian Mobility 22. Evenki Hunters’ and Reindeer Herders’ Mobility: Transformation of Autonomy Regimes Vladimir N. Davydov 23. The Infrastructure of Food Distribution: Translocal Dagestani Migrants in Western Siberia Ekaterina Kapustina 24. Development Cycles of Cities in the Siberian North Nadezhda Zamyatina 25. What Difference Does a Railroad Make? Transportation and Settlement in the BAM Region in Historical Perspective Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer 26. Stuck in Between: Transportation Infrastructure, Corporate Social Responsibility and the State in a Small Siberian Oil Town Gertrude Saxinger, Natalia Krasnoshtanova, Gertraud Illmeier 27. Hidden Dimensions of Clandestine Fishery: A Misfortune Topology Based on Scenarios of Failures Lidia Rakhmanova 28. Infrastructural Brokers in a Logistical Cul-de-sac: Taimyr’s Wild Winter Road Drivers Valeria Vasilyeva 29. Ice Roads and Floating Shops: The Seasonal Variations and Landscape of Mobility in Northwest Siberia Mikhail G. Agapov Part 5: Religious Mosaics in Siberia 30 Contemporary Shamanic and Spiritual Practices in the City of Yakutsk Lena A. Sidorova, 31.The Making of Altaian Nationalism: Indigenous Intelligentsia, Oirot Prophecy, and Socialist Autonomy, 1904-1922 Andrei Znamenski 32. Missionaries in the Russian Arctic: Religious and ideological changes among Nenets reindeer herders Laur Vallikivi 33. Nanai post-Soviet Shamanism: "true" shamans among the "neo-shamans" Tatiana Bulgakova 34 Feeding the Gi’rgir at Kilvei: An exploration of human-reindeer-ancestor relations among the Siberian Chukchi Jeanette Lykkegård 35. Feasts and Festivals among Contemporary Siberian Communities Stephan Dudeck 36. Animals as a Reflection of the Universe Structure in the Culture of Oka Buryats and Soyots Veronika Beliaeva-Sachuk Part 6: Conceptions of History 37. Economics of the Santan Trade: Profit of the Nivkh and Ul’chi traders in Northeast Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Shiro Sasaki 38. Power, Ritual, and Art in the Siberian Ice Age: The Collection of Ornamented Artifacts as Evidence of Prestige Technology Liudmila Lbova, Tatyana Rostyazhenko 39.Archaeology of Shamanism in Siberian Prehistory Feng Qu 40. Rock art research in Southeast Siberia: a history of ideas and ethnographic interpretations Donatas Brandišauskas 41. A History of Siberian Ethnography Anna Sirina 42. Cycles of Change: Seasonality in the Environmental History of Siberia Spencer Abbe and Ryan Jones

John P. Ziker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, USA. His work focuses on social networks, climate change, and demography. Jenanne Ferguson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her work in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology focuses on Indigenous and minority language revitalization, urbanization and globalization, and linguistic creativity/verbal art. Vladimir Davydov is Deputy Director for Science at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg and research fellow in the Chukotka branch of North-Eastern Federal University, Anadyr, Russia. His work focuses on mobility, infrastructure, human–animal relations, reindeer herding, anthropology of food, and the history of Siberian ethnography.