The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions

Author(s)

• Anderson, David G.

Bibliographic Information

The 1926/27 Soviet polar census expeditions

edited by David G. Anderson

Berghahn Books, 2011

Note

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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Details

• NCID: BB17974739
• ISBN:
  • 9781845457662
• LCCN: 2010051903
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 332 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN585.R9
  • DC22 : 305.800947
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indigenous peoples -- Russia, Northern -- Census
  • LCSH : Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Census
  • LCSH : Ethnological expeditions -- Russia, Northern -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Ethnological expeditions -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Indigenous peoples -- Russia, Northern -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Social life and customs
  • LCSH : Siberia (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration
  • LCSH : Russia, Northern -- Discovery and exploration
  • LCSH : Siberia (Russia) -- Census
  • LCSH : Russia, Northern -- Census