From Living Water to the “Water of Death”: Implicating Social Resilience in Northeastern Siberia
Rural inhabitants of the Arctic sustain their way of life via refined adaptations to the extreme climate of the North, and subsequent generations continue to adapt. Viliui Sakha, Turkic-speaking horse and cattle breeders of northeastern Siberia, Russia, have been successful through their ancestral a...
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crbrillap:10.1163/15685357-01702003 2023-10-09T21:49:05+02:00 From Living Water to the “Water of Death”: Implicating Social Resilience in Northeastern Siberia Crate, Susan A. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-01702003 https://brill.com/view/journals/wo/17/2/article-p115_3.xml https://data.brill.com/files/journals/15685357_017_02_S03_text.pdf unknown Brill Worldviews volume 17, issue 2, page 115-124 ISSN 1363-5247 1568-5357 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Philosophy Religious studies Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2013 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-01702003 2023-09-14T20:44:38Z Rural inhabitants of the Arctic sustain their way of life via refined adaptations to the extreme climate of the North, and subsequent generations continue to adapt. Viliui Sakha, Turkic-speaking horse and cattle breeders of northeastern Siberia, Russia, have been successful through their ancestral adaptations to local water access, in both a solid and liquid state, at specific times and in specific amounts. Viliui Sakha’s activities to access and utilize water are grounded in a belief system where water is spirit-filled, gives life, and can interplay with death. In the context of contemporary global climate change, water’s solid-liquid balance is disrupted by changing seasonal patterns, altered precipitation regimes, and an overall “softening” of the extreme annual temperature range. Inhabitants are finding ways to adapt but at increasing labor and resource costs. In this paper, I analyze Viliui Sakha’s adaptations to altered water regimes on both the physical and cosmological levels to grasp how water is understood in Sakha’s belief system as the water of life, how it becomes “the water of death,” and the implications for social resilience. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Sakha Siberia Brill (via Crossref) Arctic Sakha Worldviews 17 2 115 124 |
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Rural inhabitants of the Arctic sustain their way of life via refined adaptations to the extreme climate of the North, and subsequent generations continue to adapt. Viliui Sakha, Turkic-speaking horse and cattle breeders of northeastern Siberia, Russia, have been successful through their ancestral adaptations to local water access, in both a solid and liquid state, at specific times and in specific amounts. Viliui Sakha’s activities to access and utilize water are grounded in a belief system where water is spirit-filled, gives life, and can interplay with death. In the context of contemporary global climate change, water’s solid-liquid balance is disrupted by changing seasonal patterns, altered precipitation regimes, and an overall “softening” of the extreme annual temperature range. Inhabitants are finding ways to adapt but at increasing labor and resource costs. In this paper, I analyze Viliui Sakha’s adaptations to altered water regimes on both the physical and cosmological levels to grasp how water is understood in Sakha’s belief system as the water of life, how it becomes “the water of death,” and the implications for social resilience. |
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From Living Water to the “Water of Death”: Implicating Social Resilience in Northeastern Siberia |
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