The Performative Machine: Transfer of Ownership in a Northwest Russian Reindeer Herding Community (Kola Peninsula)

Abstract The article is based on longitudinal fieldwork with reindeer herders in the Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia. Its main ethnographic focus is SKhPK 'Tundra' (sel'sko khoziastvennaia proizvoditel'naia kooperatsiia - agricultural producing cooperative) of Lovozero. The main...

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Published in:Nomadic Peoples
Main Authors: Konstantinov, Yulian, Vladimirova, Vladislava
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Liverpool University Press 2006
Subjects:
Demography
Kola Peninsula
Lovozero
kola peninsula
Northwest Russia
Tundra
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/np.2006.100210
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/nomp/2006/00000010/00000002/art00010
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Summary:Abstract The article is based on longitudinal fieldwork with reindeer herders in the Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia. Its main ethnographic focus is SKhPK 'Tundra' (sel'sko khoziastvennaia proizvoditel'naia kooperatsiia - agricultural producing cooperative) of Lovozero. The main argument is that a state of communal affairs under the dominance of the state farm (sovkhoz), during the Soviet period, privileged domestic economies of the farm workers to be supported by the collective assets of the farm. The authors see this state of 'private-in-the-collective' arrangement as 'sovkhoism' and view the present variety of rural organisational forms in Russia as greater or lesser departures from it.

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