Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the...
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through ...
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...
In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy ...
"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project." - Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution
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...
"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address...
In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar North. One of the key aspects of the lives of circumpolar peoples, be they in Scandinavia, Alaska, Russia, or Canada, is their relationship to the wild animals that support them. Although divided for most of the 20th Century by various national trading blocks, and the Cold War, aboriginal people in each region share common stories about the various capitalist and socialist states that claimed control over their lands and animals. Now, aboriginal...
In the last two decades, there has been an increased awareness of the traditions and issues that link aboriginal people across the circumpolar Nor...
"Each chapter offers something interesting for the reader...One can list bright and sometimes provocative ideas put forth by each contributor...The main advantage of this book is the ability to spark interest among the most diverse groups of specialists in the field of indigenous cultures." - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
..".being packed with ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, this volume] can serve as an introduction to regional circumpolar studies as well as to Northern communities, past and present, indigenous or simply local." -...
"Each chapter offers something interesting for the reader...One can list bright and sometimes provocative ideas put forth by each contributor...The...
