" The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement is the first ethnography of the
Russian North to focus on post-Soviet relations of domination between an indigenous …

In many areas across Siberia, the reindeer herding economy of the native people went into a
deep recession during the post‐Soviet transition of the 1990s. However, as a larger cross …

This paper charts a critical and volatile junction created by culture, environmentalism, and
local politics in Chukotka during the mid-1990s, that is, by the middle of the first decade of …

The Soviet period is often portrayed as a time when indigenous peoples in the Russian
North were so badly mistreated through the process of building socialism that their cultures …

Privatisation of state farms in Russia precipitated a crisis in the reindeer herding economy.
Chukotka once had the largest domestic reindeer herd in Russia, and the plummet in …

The Chukotka Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation is inhabited by several Native
and non-Native peoples. The Chukchis and Siberian Yupiks constitute the two most …

The Chukotka Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation is inhabited by several Native
and non-Native peoples. The Chukchis and Siberian Yupiks constitute the two most …

One night in August 2009 I was awakened by the sad news that my main informant–or,
rather, best friend-in the Republic of Altai in Siberia where I did fieldwork, Anna, 1 had died …