Borders and Land: Ideal Perceptions and Real Practices of Evenk Hunters and Herders

• Main Author: Olga Povoroznyuk
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Evenk; Evenks; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.1063; http://www.nrf.is/Publications/The Borderless North/Second Theme_YR_Povoroznyuk.pdf

Evenks represent one of the nomadic reindeer herding and hunting indigenous peoples widely sca! ered across Siberia and the Far East. Their communities, presently living in the north of Chitinskaya Province 1 have also been known for their reindeer hunting and herding tra-dition, which determined their lifestyle, adaptation and strategy of exploitation of natural resources. It was the combination of hunting elks, deer and fur animals, on the one hand, with small-scale transportation type of reindeer herding and subsidiary fi shing, on the other, that was underlying the unique economic model, no-madic pa! erns and land use practices of Chita Evenks (Vasilevich 1969). Thus, diversifi ed subsistence econo-