Personal and Ethnic Identity in Representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far North: The Nenets and the Sami

• Main Authors: Flotskaya, Natalya, Bulanova, Svetlana, Ponomareva, Maria, Flotskiy, Nikolay, Kagan, Olga
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; nenets; Russian North; sami
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97460-2_8; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-97460-2_8

Abstract In the modern multicultural Russian society, the preservation of ethnocultural continuity, the formation of modern-day understanding of history, and the integration of ethnic and civic identities in the Indigenous peoples of the Far North and the Arctic, which are currently characterized by the intensification of ethnic processes, are becoming increasingly relevant. When describing the contemporary Russian North, we should note that it is characterized by highly contradictory processes, which combine both the integration of the Indigenous population and newcomers and the separation of different ethnic groups. Trying to understand this highly contradictory situation, we have conducted an empirical study of ethnic and personal identity in adolescents, as described below. Within the study, we have focused on the Nenets and the Sami communities as representative of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far North.