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

• 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

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...