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Article: The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2006
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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE STATE IN SUBARCTIC SIBERIA. By NIKOLAI V. SSORIN-CHAIKOV. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8047-3462-3. xii + 261 p., map, photos, bib., index. Hardbound. US$55.00.
This is a fascinating, and mostly successful, book that provides a partial "ethnography" of the Russian state in its engagement with its northern peripheries and its attempts to subjugate them. It tacks between theoretical premises and arguments, ethnographic and archival texts, and illustrative (and often entertaining) anecdotes from the author's fieldwork in and near "Katonga," the alias for an Evenki village along the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Central ...