Experience, Movement and Mobility: Komi Reindeer Herders' Perception of the Environment
Abstract On the basis of fieldwork among Komi reindeer herders in the north of Russia, the author discusses the concepts of movement and mobility. In the first part, he describes reindeer herders' migrations from an outsider's point of view, which reflects the conventional academic approac...
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crliverpoolup:10.3167/np.2006.100208 2024-01-14T10:10:11+01:00 Experience, Movement and Mobility: Komi Reindeer Herders' Perception of the Environment Habeck, Joachim Otto 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/np.2006.100208 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/nomp/2006/00000010/00000002/art00008 en eng Liverpool University Press Nomadic Peoples volume 10, issue 2, page 123-141 ISSN 0822-7942 1752-2366 Demography journal-article 2006 crliverpoolup https://doi.org/10.3167/np.2006.100208 2023-12-15T14:53:13Z Abstract On the basis of fieldwork among Komi reindeer herders in the north of Russia, the author discusses the concepts of movement and mobility. In the first part, he describes reindeer herders' migrations from an outsider's point of view, which reflects the conventional academic approach to the theme of pastoralists' mobility. Komi reindeer husbandry may be described as a transhumant system with protracted linear migrations. In the second part, he tries to look beyond these etic categories and gives an account of their movements from an emic perspective. Moving through the forests and tundra is inextricably connected with a sense of temporality, with the seasons and the weather, with events and memories, and with experience, learning and 'enskilment' (Ingold 2000). This emic perspective is discussed in the frame of Tim Ingold's thoughts about 'the perception of the environment' and other phenomenological approaches. The author differentiates between mobility as the potential of movement, and movement as mobility 'acted out'. The etic (outsiders') perspective can explain pastoral migrations as a potential (mobility), yet it cannot fully account for the pastoralists' being in action (movement). Article in Journal/Newspaper reindeer husbandry Tundra Liverpool University Press (via Crossref) Nomadic Peoples 10 2 123 141 |
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Abstract On the basis of fieldwork among Komi reindeer herders in the north of Russia, the author discusses the concepts of movement and mobility. In the first part, he describes reindeer herders' migrations from an outsider's point of view, which reflects the conventional academic approach to the theme of pastoralists' mobility. Komi reindeer husbandry may be described as a transhumant system with protracted linear migrations. In the second part, he tries to look beyond these etic categories and gives an account of their movements from an emic perspective. Moving through the forests and tundra is inextricably connected with a sense of temporality, with the seasons and the weather, with events and memories, and with experience, learning and 'enskilment' (Ingold 2000). This emic perspective is discussed in the frame of Tim Ingold's thoughts about 'the perception of the environment' and other phenomenological approaches. The author differentiates between mobility as the potential of movement, and movement as mobility 'acted out'. The etic (outsiders') perspective can explain pastoral migrations as a potential (mobility), yet it cannot fully account for the pastoralists' being in action (movement). |
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