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People and the Land

Kasten, Erich (ed.) People and the Land Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia Siberian Studies 2002, Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin 257 pp., 2 maps, 13,5 x 20,5 cm Euro 29,- (D) / sFr 49,- paper, ISBN 3-496-02743-6 Order from: vertrieb-kunstverlage@reimer-verlag.de Distribution in North America: University of Washington Press $ 27.50 paper Order from: www.washington.edu/uwpress/

Introduction
Erich Kasten 1 PDF

Ways of Knowing and Indigenous People's Linking to the Land

In the 'House of Dismay': Knowledge, culture, and post-Soviet politics in Chukotka, 1995­1996 7
Igor Krupnik and Nikolai Vakhtin
[Chukchi, Siberian Eskimo, cultural continuity and change, indigenous knowledge, ethnic politics, political economy, post-Soviet transformations, education] PDF

When the Fat Raven sings: Mimesis and environmental alterity in Kamchatka's environmentalist age 45
David Koester
[Itelmens, human-environment relations, cultural continuity and change, music, dance] PDF

Reindeer herders' culturescapes in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug 63
Alexander D. King
[Koryaks, identities, ethnicity, human-environment relations] PDF

Property Relations and Power Dynamics of Resource Use

Self-government of the indigenous minority peoples of West Siberia: Analysis of law and practice 83
Natalia Novikova
[Khanty, Mansi, ethnic politics, self-government,legislation] PDF

Entitlements, identity and time: Addressing aboriginal rights and nature protection in Siberia's new resource colonies 99
David G. Anderson
[Evenki, Dolgans, native/territorial rights, self-government, entitlements, nature protection, political economy, post-Soviet transformations] PDF

How to turn a reindeer pasture into an oil well, and vice versa: Transfer of land, compensation and reclamation in the Komi Republic 125
Joachim Otto Habeck
[Komi, nature protection, political economy, land rights, entitlements] PDF

Est' zakon, est' i svoi zakony: Legal and moral entitlements to the fish resources of Nyski Bay, north-eastern Sakhalin 149
Emma Wilson
[Nivkhi, political economy, legislation, entitlements, fishing] PDF

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Market Reforms and non-Market Strategies

Soviet and post-Soviet reindeer-herding collectives: Transitional slogans in Murmansk region 171
Yulian Konstantinov
[Saami, political economy, post-Soviet transformations] PDF

Transition period in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug: Changing and unchanging life of Nenets people 189
Tuula Tuisku
[Nenets, political economy, reindeer-herding, post-Soviet transformations] PDF

Land use and economic change among the Dolgan and Nganasan 207
John P. Ziker
[Dolgans, Nganasans, political economy, hunting, post-Soviet transformations, territorial rights, self-government] PDF

Is trade traditional? Theorizing economic histories and futures in the New Kamchatka 225
Nelson Hancock
[Itelmens, Kamchadals, political economy, entitlements, fishing, gathering, NTFPs, trade] PDF

Epilogue 245
Tim Ingold
[Russian north, post-Soviet transformations, ecology] PDF

Notes on the Contributors 255

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