Technologies of Modern Reindeer
Breeding as Technologies of Power in Circumpolar Russia:a Study of Selective Breeding of Evenki Reindeer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2502201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladislava Vladimirova (0000-0002-2594-9912, Uppsala University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 249-267 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0802-7285 • E-ISSN: 1504-2898 |
| Publisher | Scandinavian University Press (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2020-04-02 |
| OpenAlex | W3086678843 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
This article explores how reindeer science in Circumpolar Russia is a field of constitutions of indigenous people and animal subjectivities. It is based on empirical research of selective breeding of the Evenki breed of reindeer in the specialised Soviet literature and in the Reindeer Herding Enterprise in the village of Surinda, Evenki Municipality. Reindeer herding has historically played a significant role for the majority indigenous Evenki people. Neat classification of reindeer into distinctive breeds was completed in Soviet time, when “proper” selective breeding technologies were established. This article looks into some of the basic assumptions about animals, humans, and society that such breed classification and selection methods reveal. I analyse the role of scientific knowledge in the Soviet era to better understand why selective reindeer breeding appears more attractive to state authorities than to support indigenous reindeer husbandry, which has been experiencing a serious crisis since the early 1990s. I explain the local politics of reindeer herding and agricultural science through the contextualisation of the field case within Soviet and contemporary Russian Arctic and indigenous governance, trying to contribute to the broader issue of post-Soviet perceptions of animal husbandry, selective breeding and reindeer
Agriculture · Animal husbandry · Archaeology · Biology · Breed · Circumpolar star · Corporate governance · Ethnology · Geography · Herding · Indigenous · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Ecology
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The Subject and Power
The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia
Critical Discourse Analysis and Science Education Texts
Beyond Design Principles
Sentient commodities and productive paradoxes
Environmental Subjectivities from the Soviet North
On the creation of indigenous subjects in the Russian Federation
Subjecting Cows to Robots
Seeing Like a State
Reindeer-Herd Management in Transition
Herds of the Tundra
The Psychic Life of Power
Architectures of domestication
Size and Place in the Construction of Indigeneity in the Russian Federation
Landscape Agency and Evenki-Iakut Reindeer Husbandry Along the Zhuia River, Eastern Siberia
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |