The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-097-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

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, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of a rural population anywhere. The contributors to this volume – all noted scholars in their region – have conducted long-term fieldwork with the descendants of the people surveyed in 1926/27. This volume is the culmination of eight years’ work with the primary record cards and was supported by a number of national scholarly funding agencies in the UK, Canada and Norway. It is a unique historical, ethnographical analysis and of immense value to scholars familiar with these communities’ contemporary cultural dynamics and legacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, David G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Cyrillic Transliteration                                                                                               

Chapter 1. The Polar Census and the Architecture of Enumeration

David G. Anderson

Chapter 2. Seasonal Mobility and Sacred Landscape Geography among Northern Hunter-Gatherer

Peter Jordan                       

Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Nenets Demography in the First Third of the 20th Century

Elena Volzhanina

Chapter 4. Undaunted Courage: the Polar Census in the Obdor Region

Elena Glavatskaya

Chapter 5. Household Structure in the Multi-Ethnic Barents Region – A Local Case Study

Gunnar Thorvaldsen

Chapter 6. Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question

Igor Semenov

Chapter 7. The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia 1926-1927

Konstantin Klokov

Chapter 8. The Origin of Reindeer Herding as ‘Sector’ on the Kanin Peninsula

Stanislav Kiselev

Chapter 9. The Spatial Demography of the ‘Outer Taiga’ of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia

David Anderson, Evgenii Ineshin, John Ziker                       

Chapter 10. Identity, Status, and Fish among Essei Iakuts

Tatiana Argounova-Low                                                                         

Chapter 11. Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands

John Ziker

Appendices

Appendix I:The Manuscript Archives of the Polar Census Expeditions

Appendix II: Table of Measures                                                                                                           

Bibliographic and Archival References                                                                       

Notes on the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson, David G.
David G. Anderson is Professor of the Anthropology of the North at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He researches the history and ethnography of the circumpolar Arctic and has conducted fieldwork in Eastern Siberia (Taimyr, Evenkiia, Zabaikal’e), the Russian North (Kola), Northern Norway and in Canada’s Mackenzie Delta. His current research is on the different visions of history among settler states and aboriginal peoples and how this is linked to the growing debate on indigenous rights. His publications include Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia (Oxford University Press) and three coedited books, Ethnographies of Conservation, Cultivating Arctic Landscapes and About the Hearth (Berghahn Books).

David G. Anderson is Professor of the Anthropology of the North at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He researches the history and ethnography of the circumpolar Arctic and has conducted fieldwork in Eastern Siberia (Taimyr, Evenkiia, Zabaikal’e), the Russian North (Kola), Northern Norway and in Canada’s Mackenzie Delta. His current research is on the different visions of history among settler states and aboriginal peoples and how this is linked to the growing debate on indigenous rights. His publications include Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia (Oxford University Press) and three coedited books, Ethnographies of Conservation, Cultivating Arctic Landscapes and About the Hearth (Berghahn Books).