Living with Reindeer Thirty Years After Socialism

Land Use and Large Reindeer Herding Among the Evenki of Southeast Siberia

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ID18980262
AuthorsDonatas Brandišauskas (0000-0002-3288-1012, Vilnius University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue1
Pages65-84
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1736-6518 • E-ISSN: 2228-0987
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/jef-2020-0005
OpenAlexW3042112336
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

30 years after socialism many groups of Evenki reindeer herders failed to survive in the suboreal taiga of East Siberia. By making reference to two case studies from the northern part of the Zabaikal region and southern part of the Republic of Sakha, this article shows how the successful continuation of reindeer herding is based on the ability of charismatic leaders mobilising Evenki communities around reindeer herding and subsistence economies. This success also relies on connection to different agents of power in local administrations, large cities and governments and the use of all of the available opportunities that infrastructure or economic agents can offer

Archaeology · Communism · Economic history · Geography · Herding · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Socialism · Socialist republic · Subsistence agriculture · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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