Off-the-Grid Life of Arctic Nomads : Social Generating of Electricity in the Northern Yamal

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The Making of the Homo Polaris : Human Acclimatization to the Arctic Environment and Soviet Ideologies in Northern Medical Institutions

This article could not have been completed without the invaluable assistance of my friend MikhailSolonenko, who helped by copying essential texts for this project during the challenging time oflockdown and the second Russian invasion in Ukraine. I am deeply grateful to Alla Bolotova,Andy Bruno, Roman Khandozhko, Laura Siragusa, Mikhail Nakonechnyi, and Igor Stas’for our discus-sions, their comments, and advice. I would also like to express my gratitude to NadezhdaM. Klemberg of the Norilsk City Archive, as well as the archivists of the Archive of the RussianAcademy of Sciences, the Central State Archive of Science and Technological Documentation ofSaint Petersburg, Novosibirsk State Archive, and Novosibirsk State Regional Science Library fortheir invaluable assistance with my archival research. Furthermore, I would like to extend mythanks to Irina Sandomirskaja and Myram Adjam, as well as all the participants of the AdvancedSeminar at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. I am thankful toNikolai Ssorin-Chaikov and hiskruzhokfor their thoughtful discussions on my paper, and toAlexey Golubev for carefully reading one of thefinal drafts of the article and providing usefuladvice on accommodating diverse intellectual traditions in writing about human acclimatization.I am especially grateful to Peder Roberts for his advice and moral support throughout my doctoralstudies and afterwards. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers fortheir constructive criticism and recommendations.Peer reviewe

Samoyedic Diary : Early Years of Visual Anthropology in the Soviet Arctic

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author appreciates the comments and remarks of Craig Campbell (University of Texas, Austin) and of all the participants in the workshop dedicated to the commemoration of Vladimir G. Bogoras, held on May 14, 2015, in the framework of the joint anthropological seminar of the Department of Ethnography of Siberia at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the European University at Saint Petersburg. The author also thanks Joselyne Dudding (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge) and David G. Anderson (University of Aberdeen) for a discussion of Ethel John Lindgren's cinematic and photographic materials, which helped in the understanding and contextualization of the Prokofievs’ chronicles. The author is also grateful to Nikolai B. Vakhtin (European University at Saint Petersburg) for his comments on the first version of the article. I am very thankful to Olga Pak for her translation of this article. A Russian version will be published in Antropologicheskii Forum (2016, no. 29). FUNDING This article was written with support from the projects ‘‘Etnos:A life history of theetnosconcept among the Peoplesof the North’’ (European Social Research Council ES=K006428=1) and ‘‘EtnosandMinzu: Histories and Politics ofIdentity Governance in Eurasia’’ (The Leverhulme Trust, IN-2012-138). In addition the Russian Science Foundation(RNF 14-18-02785) supported the archival work in Saint Petersburg during the last stage of the research.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Writing the History of the Northern “Field” : An Introductory Note

This issue became possible thanks to two research projects “Etnos: A Life History of the Etnos Concept among the Peoples of the North” (ESRC, UK) and “Etnos and Minzu: Histories and Politics of Identity Governance in Eurasia” (The Leverhulme Trust, UK), led by Professor David G. Anderson (University of Aberdeen). We thank Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Estonian National Museum, Tartu, for the permission to publish some photographs and drawings from the collections. We also thank proofreaders Daniel Edward Allen (Tartu, Estonia) and Sarah Buckmaster (Brighton, UK) who made this issue more readable.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Environmental Encounters : Woolly Mammoth, Indigenous Communities and Metropolitan Scientists in the Soviet Arctic

Acknowledgments This paper has been presented at the (Un)Common Worlds: Human-Animal Studies conference in Turku, Finland on 7–9 August 2018 and at Helsinki University Environmental Humanities Forum on 12 March 2019. Many of the ideas in this article have been formulated thanks to my long-term collaborations with Nenets reindeer herders in the Yamal peninsula in the Russian Arctic, namely, Khadri’ nyísya, Gena’ nyebya, Artur nyinyeka, di͡adi͡a Fedi͡a, Roman Andreevich and many others. I thank them for their incredible hospitality, support and genuine interest in what I was doing in the field. This research could not be possible without the help and advice of my colleagues Marii͡a Amelina (Moscow), David Anderson (Aberdeen), Dmitriĭ Doronin (Moscow), Naili͡a Galeeva (Salekhard/Kazan’), Erik Hieta (Helsinki), I͡Ulii͡a Laĭus (Saint Petersburg), Kati Lindström (Stockholm), Li͡udmila Lipatova (Salekhard), Karina Lukin (Helsinki), Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Viktor Pál (Helsinki), Noora Pyyry (Helsinki), Peder Roberts (Stavanger/Stockholm), Mikko Saikku (Helsinki), Laura Siragusa (Helsinki), Anna Svensson (Stockholm) and Alekseĭ Tikhonov (Saint Petersburg). The analysis of indigenous folklore would be impossible without the online database of folklore motives compiled by I͡Uriĭ E. Berezkin (http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin/index.htm). I am also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and recommendations. All Russian words and titles are transliterated with ALA-LC (Library of Congress) Romanization with Diacritics, while Nenets words are transliterated according to the system of Tapani Salminen. Financial Support This article has been written with the support of the ERC project Greening the Poles: Science, the Environment, and the Creation of the Modern Arctic and Antarctic (GRETPOL) (PI Prof Peder Roberts). The field research for this article has been supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation project No 18-18-00309 The Energy of the Arctic and Siberia: The Use of Resources in the Context of Socio-Economic and Ecological Change (PI Dr Vladimir N. Davydov).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The Etnos Archipelago : Sergei M. Shirokogoroff and the Life History of a Controversial Anthropological Concept

We thank the 12 commentators for their insights and their invitations for fresh research. The new intellectual terrain of this concept, adopted by Kremlin politicians and social movements alike, deserves more anthropological attention.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Introduction to 'Entangled Indigenous Historicities from the Eurasian North'

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« Épîtres » altaïennes : histoire et vie des textes du mouvement religieux Ak-jaŋ

Les pratiques communicationnelles sont un aspect important des Nouveaux mouvements religieux. Cet article porte sur des « épîtres », des textes « envoyés d’en haut », et leur circulation dans le mouvement religieux moderne Ak-jaŋ dans la république d’Altaï, ainsi que leur interprétation anthropologique. Les épîtres sont une source pour comprendre la « philosophie » indigène qui est considérée par les participants au mouvement comme un savoir alternatif avec un double arrière-plan, altaïen et russe. L’article décrit la vie sociale des textes, au niveau local et au niveau régional en dialogue avec le pouvoir.The communication practices are important part of many New Religious Movements. This article is about such narratives (“epistles” as texts “sent from Above”), their circulation into modern religious movement Ak-Jaŋ in the Altai Republic and their anthropological interpretation. These epistles are the source of understanding indigenous “philosophy” which is considered by movement’s participants as alternative knowledge having a bilingual background (Altai and Russian). First of all I write about local level of this life. At the same time I show the way of the texts from local to regional level as a dialog between local community and regional power

« Épîtres » altaïennes : histoire et vie des textes du mouvement religieux Ak-jaŋ

Les pratiques communicationnelles sont un aspect important des Nouveaux mouvements religieux. Cet article porte sur des « épîtres », des textes « envoyés d’en haut », et leur circulation dans le mouvement religieux moderne Ak-jaŋ dans la république d’Altaï, ainsi que leur interprétation anthropologique. Les épîtres sont une source pour comprendre la « philosophie » indigène qui est considérée par les participants au mouvement comme un savoir alternatif avec un double arrière-plan, altaïen et russe. L’article décrit la vie sociale des textes, au niveau local et au niveau régional en dialogue avec le pouvoir.The communication practices are important part of many New Religious Movements. This article is about such narratives (“epistles” as texts “sent from Above”), their circulation into modern religious movement Ak-Jaŋ in the Altai Republic and their anthropological interpretation. These epistles are the source of understanding indigenous “philosophy” which is considered by movement’s participants as alternative knowledge having a bilingual background (Altai and Russian). First of all I write about local level of this life. At the same time I show the way of the texts from local to regional level as a dialog between local community and regional power

Shatra and JurtThe “Return Address” in the Altaian Ritual

Supported by the Russian Science Foundation project (No. 14-18-02785) and by the Arctic Domus project (ERC, AdG295458).Peer reviewedPublisher PD