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Article: Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia: the number one reindeer brigade (Oxford Stud. social cult. Anthrop.).(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- March 1, 2001
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ANDERSON, DAVID G. Identity and ecology in Arctic Siberia: the number one reindeer brigade (Oxford Stud. social cult. Anthrop.), x, 253 pp. map, illus., bibliogr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2000. [pound]45.00
In 1992-3, the Canadian ethnographer, David Anderson, apprenticed with a nine-member Evenki reindeer brigade on the Khantaika state farm on the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia. The settlement of Khantaika, which had a population of 563 in 1992, is about 400 kilometres southeast of the mining-smelting centre of Noril'sk.
Anderson argues that Tsarist and Soviet state ethnographers did not comprehend the complex relationship between Evenki, tundra, and ...