Studies in Social and
Cultural Anthropology
General editors: Erich Kasten and David Koester
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Stephan Dudeck
Der
Tag des Rentierzüchters:
Repräsentation indigener Lebensstile
zwischen
Taigawohnplatz und
Erdölstadt in Westsibirien
2013,
Fürstenberg/Havel:
Kulturstiftung Sibirien
351 pp., 20
Farbabbildungen
ISBN:
978-3-942883-17-7
Euro 34;
paperback
PDF
(3.6 MB)
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The Khanty live as reindeer herders in the Western
Siberian Taiga but their lifestyle is endangered by
crude oil extraction on their land. Today their lives
are divided socially as well as spatially between the
town and the forest. By taking the celebration of the
Day of the Reindeer Herder as an example, the book
describes the indigenous strategies to keep cultural
difference and autonomy alive by drawing boundaries
and maintaining religious practices and social norms.
The author shows how the people of the Taiga use their
traditions of hiding and avoiding as well as new ways
of public representation to cope with the changes.
Stephan Dudeck is an anthropologist at the
Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in
Rovaniemi, Finland, documenting the oral history of
reindeer herders in the European Arctic. He received
his doctoral degree at the Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. Between 1993 and
2009 he regularly visited Khanty and Nenets reindeer
herders in the vicinity of the Western Siberian Oil-
and Gas fields. His travels also took him to the Kola
Peninsula, the Komi Republic, the Amur region,
Kamchatka and to Central Asia to the Nuratau mountains
in Uzbekistan and to the Pamir. His research interest
is the lifestyles of nomadic people, especially
reindeer pastoralists, fishers and hunters in an
increasingly industrialised world, their oral history,
neo-traditionalism, technological innovation and the
practices of hiding and avoidance. He published on
Siberian reindeer pastorialism, indigenous education,
the relationship of indigenous people to the oil
industry, minority rights, the safeguarding of
languages and traditional knowledge and the
methodology of politically engaged and collaborative
ethnographic research. His photographic works have
been shown in exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, Halle,
Frankfurt a.M. and Goettingen and he was involved in
the production of several ethnographic films.