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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 |
The dissolution of the Soviet Union has opened up new processes of building and rebuilding collective identities in the Russian North. Contests over identity have become highly politicised and are seen by many inhabitants of Siberia as an instrument to secure access to resources and cultural property. The mobilization strategies of activists often involve manipulation of the criteria for group membership and switching between criteria, while simultaneously cultivating ‘cross-cutting’ and multiple identities. The contributors to this volume explore these controversial trends by paying close attention to the diverse social backgrounds of the inhabitants. The underlying issues, particularly the importance of ‘ethnicity’ vis-à-vis other types of collective identity, are by no means peculiar to the Russian North and a comparative perspective is introduced through the inclusion of additional case studies from neighboring regions. This volume, the final in a series devoted to post-Soviet reform pathways, will therefore also be of interest to other Arctic specialists and to wider audiences in anthropology and related disciplines.
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
PDF
Erich Kasten
The Dynamics of Identity Management 237 PDF
Notes on the contributors 261
Index 265