The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions
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The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions
Berghahn Books, 2011
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-313) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local geographers and ethnographers, the Polar Census grew into a massive ethnological exercise, gathering not only basic demographic and economic data on every household but also a rich archive of photographs, maps, kinship charts, narrative transcripts and museum artifacts. To this day, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of a rural population anywhere. The contributors to this volume - all noted scholars in their region - have conducted long-term fieldwork with the descendants of the people surveyed in 1926/27. This volume is the culmination of eight years' work with the primary record cards and was supported by a number of national scholarly funding agencies in the UK, Canada and Norway. It is a unique historical, ethnographical analysis and of immense value to scholars familiar with these communities' contemporary cultural dynamics and legacy.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Cyrillic Transliteration
Chapter 1. The Polar Census and the Architecture of Enumeration
David G. Anderson
Chapter 2. Seasonal Mobility and Sacred Landscape Geography among Northern Hunter-Gatherer
Peter Jordan
Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Nenets Demography in the First Third of the 20th Century
Elena Volzhanina
Chapter 4. Undaunted Courage: the Polar Census in the Obdor Region
Elena Glavatskaya
Chapter 5. Household Structure in the Multi-Ethnic Barents Region - A Local Case Study
Gunnar Thorvaldsen
Chapter 6. Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question
Igor Semenov
Chapter 7. The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia 1926-1927
Konstantin Klokov
Chapter 8. The Origin of Reindeer Herding as 'Sector' on the Kanin Peninsula
Stanislav Kiselev
Chapter 9. The Spatial Demography of the 'Outer Taiga' of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia
David Anderson, Evgenii Ineshin, John Ziker
Chapter 10. Identity, Status, and Fish among Essei Iakuts
Tatiana Argounova-Low
Chapter 11. Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands
John Ziker
Appendices
Appendix I:The Manuscript Archives of the Polar Census Expeditions
Appendix II: Table of Measures
Bibliographic and Archival References
Notes on the Contributors
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