Black Food: Subsistence, Diet, and Exchange in Yessei Yakut Society

This article investigates the concept of black food among the Lake Yessei Yakut in Siberia. With reference to two sources, archival records from the Russian Polar North Census of 1926–27 and contemporary fieldwork material, I investigate the local diet based on subsistence fishing and hunting and th...

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Published in:Ethnohistory
Main Author: Argounova-Low, Tatiana
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2009
Subjects:
Yakut
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-005
https://read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory/article-pdf/56/3/479/254037/EH056-03-05Argounova-LowFpp.pdf
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spelling crdukeunivpr:10.1215/00141801-2009-005 2024-06-02T08:15:49+00:00 Black Food: Subsistence, Diet, and Exchange in Yessei Yakut Society Argounova-Low, Tatiana 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-005 https://read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory/article-pdf/56/3/479/254037/EH056-03-05Argounova-LowFpp.pdf en eng Duke University Press Ethnohistory volume 56, issue 3, page 479-507 ISSN 0014-1801 1527-5477 journal-article 2009 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-005 2024-05-07T13:16:03Z This article investigates the concept of black food among the Lake Yessei Yakut in Siberia. With reference to two sources, archival records from the Russian Polar North Census of 1926–27 and contemporary fieldwork material, I investigate the local diet based on subsistence fishing and hunting and the food exchanges it entails. The article looks into changes that affected the food habits and concludes with an analysis of the social meaning of the concept of black food. Article in Journal/Newspaper Yakut Siberia Duke University Press Ethnohistory 56 3 479 507
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description This article investigates the concept of black food among the Lake Yessei Yakut in Siberia. With reference to two sources, archival records from the Russian Polar North Census of 1926–27 and contemporary fieldwork material, I investigate the local diet based on subsistence fishing and hunting and the food exchanges it entails. The article looks into changes that affected the food habits and concludes with an analysis of the social meaning of the concept of black food.
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