Economic View from the Tundra Camp: Field Experience With Reindeer Herders in the Kola Peninsula
The sharp deterioration of the Russian economy in 1998 has strongly affected the northern periphery. This paper follows a ten weeks fieldwork conducted during the spring 1999, mainly at the reindeer herding camp No. 1, belonging to the former state farm Pamyat ’ Lenina (‘Memory of Lenin’). My concer...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.620.5948 http://www.thearctic.is/articles/cases/economicview/Reindeer-Herding=thearctic.is.r.pdf |
| Summary: | The sharp deterioration of the Russian economy in 1998 has strongly affected the northern periphery. This paper follows a ten weeks fieldwork conducted during the spring 1999, mainly at the reindeer herding camp No. 1, belonging to the former state farm Pamyat ’ Lenina (‘Memory of Lenin’). My concern is how the economic relationships in the very periphery are redefined in response to centre’s |
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