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Siberian Studies
general editor: Erich Kasten
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Pathways to Reform
in Post-Soviet Siberia
editor: Erich Kasten |
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Kasten, Erich (ed.)
People and the Land
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
While much has been written on post-Soviet change in Russian
urban centres, we still know very little about how these changes
have affected peoples' lives in rural communities. This is
nowhere more true than in the vast regions of Siberia and the
North. This volume fills this gap with in-depth studies of how
people with different cultural backgrounds, often living in
extreme natural environments, are coping with dramatic and rapid
political and economic transformations. It shows how the fate
of postsocialist reforms in the Russian North depends largely
on striking the right balance between exploitation of the region's
strategic natural resources and concern for environmental impacts
and the survival of local people. The authors, among them many
of the leading scholars of the Russian North, place their accounts
within the context of wider, comparative enquiries into the
nature of postsocialist societies.
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Kasten, Erich (ed.)
Properties of Culture - Culture as Property
2004, Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin
323 pp., 19 illus., 1 map, index, 13,5 x 20,5 cm
Euro 39, (D) / sFr 67,50 paper, ISBN 3-496-02768-1
Indigenous groups are reshaping and claiming possession of
symbols, not only in the Russian North and other circumpolar
regions but worldwide. In addition to material objects and
practices, knowledge itself is increasingly claimed as the
exclusive heritage of a specific group, whose members then
assert privileges on this basis. The commodification of culture
as a form of property is a product of complex processes of
identity construction. Native groups in the circumpolar North,
although sharing similar natural environments, have experienced
very different political histories. This book explores the
consequences of this variation for the ways in which culture
is nowadays celebrated, but also manipulated and reified. The
main focus is on Siberia, but the studies will also be of interest
to all those following the theoretical and practical debates
concerning three key concepts of contemporary anthropology:
culture, property and indigeneity.
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Kasten, Erich (ed.)
Rebuilding Identities.
2005, Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin
280 pp., 25 illus., 6 maps, index, 13,5 x 20,5 cm
Euro xx (D) /sFr xx 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.
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Language and
culture on DVD
editors: Erich Kasten and Michael Dürr |
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Die das Rentier tanzen: Korjaken und Evenen im Fernen Osten
Russlands
Text, Fotos und Videos: Erich Kasten
Redaktion: Erich Kasten und Michael Dürr
2003 Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde Münster
& Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin
Rentierhaltung, Fischfang und Jagd prägen den Alltag
in der Tundra und an den Küsten der Halbinsel Kamtschatka.
Auch Tanz und Musik spielen bei den dort lebenden Völkern
eine wichtige Rolle. Sie sind Bestandteil der Feste und werden
ebenfalls in modernen künstlerischen Interpretationen
gezeigt. Diese einstündige Dokumentation bietet faszinierende
Einblicke in das Leben der Menschen im Fernen Osten Russlands.
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Even & Koryak language and culture Bystrinski rayon,
Central Kamchatka
Koryak language and culture Northern Kamchatka
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