The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions / / ed. by David G. Anderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, David G.,; Argounova-Low, Tatiana,; Glavatskaya, Elena M.,; Ineshin, Evgenii M.,; Jordan, Peter,; Klokov, Konstantin B.,; Semenov, Igor,; Thorvaldsen, Gunnar,; Volzhanina, Elena A.,; Ziker, John P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, David G.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Cyrillic Transliteration
• 1 The Polar Census and the Architecture of Enumeration
• 2 Seasonal Mobility and Sacred Landscape Geography among Northern Hunter-Gatherers
• 3 The Interpretation of Nenets Demography in the First Third of the Twentieth Century
• 4 Undaunted Courage: The Polar Census in the Obdor Region
• 5 Household Structure in the Multiethnic Barents Region: A Local Case Study
• 6 Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question
• 7 The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia, 1926–1927
• 8 The Origin of Reindeer Herding as a ‘Sector’ on the Kanin Peninsula
• 9 The Spatial Demography of the ‘Outer Taiga’ of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia
• 10 Identity, Status and Fish Among Lake Essei Iakuts
• 11 Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands in 1926–27
• APPENDIX 1 The Manuscript Archives of the Polar Census Expeditions
• APPENDIX 2 Table of Measures
• Bibliography
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index