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Kasten, Erich (ed.)
Rebuilding Identities
Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia
Siberian Studies
2005, Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin
280 pp., 25 illus., 6 maps, index, 13,5 x 20,5 cm
Euro 39,- (D) / sFr 67,50 paper, ISBN 3-496-02773-8                                                             


Erich Kasten
Preface 1   PDF

Introduction

Joachim Otto Habeck
Dimensions of Identity 9   PDF

Identities and northern worldviews

Nikolai Vakhtin
The Russian Arctic between Missionaries and Soviets:
The Return of Religion, Double Belief, or Double Identity 27   PDF

Virginie Vaté
Kilvêi: The Chukchi Spring Festival in Urban and Rural Contexts 39   PDF

Sacred spaces and spatial boundaries

Peter Jordan and Andre Filtchenko
Continuity and Change in Eastern Khanty Language and Worldview 63   PDF

Gail Fondahl
“Everything is as if Beyond a Boundary”: Reflections on Apprehensions Regarding
Aboriginal Re-Territorialization in Northern Russia 89   PDF

Florian Stammler
The Obshchina Movement in Yamal: Defending Territories to Build Identities? 109   PDF

Ethnic identities and translocality

Peter Schweitzer, Nikolai Vakhtin, and Evgeniy Golovko
The Difficulty of Being Oneself: Identity Politics of “Old Settler” Communities in Northeastern Siberia 135   PDF

Tsypylma Darieva
Recruiting for the Nation: Post-Soviet Transnational Migrants in Germany and Kazakhstan 153   PDF

István Sántha
Somewhere in Between: Social Ties on the Borderland between Taiga and Steppe to the West of Lake Baikal 173   PDF

Prospects to self-determination

Anna Sirina
Clan Communities among the Northern Indigenous Peoples of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic:
A Step to Self-determination? 197   PDF

Galina Diatchkova
Models of Ethnic Adaptation to the Natural and Social Environment in the Russian North 217
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Epilogue

Erich Kasten
The Dynamics of Identity Management 237   PDF

Notes on the contributors     261
Index     265