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NEW BOOK:
Peoples of the Tundra: Northern Siberians in the Post-Communist
Transition
by John Ziker
List Price: $12.95
Paperback: 208 pages; (April 1, 2002)
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1577662121
Zikeris account of the Dolgan and Nganasan peoples of the Ust Avam
community is a valuable contribution to the Anthropology of
post-Socialism, Anthropology of the north, hunter-gatherer studies, and
Siberian ethnography. The book provides ethnographic detail on local
economic practices, history, demographics, cosmology, land and resource
management arrangements, and kinship, and relates these details to
larger anthropological debates on human nature, relationships between
colonizers and colonized, tradition, and sustainability. The book
describes the devastating changes affecting indigenous people in the
central Taimyr lowlands created in the wake of the Soviet Unionis
collapse, in particular: increasing isolation of remote communities
along with a shift to non-market survival strategies; convergence of
traditions among the Dolgan and Nganasan; and, increasing socio-economic
differentiation between remote communities and urban centers.