The Yamal Nenets’ traditional and contemporary environmental knowledge of snow, ice, and permafrost
Traditional knowledge about snow and ice conditions on and in the ground is essential in the life of the Yamal Nenets. This holistic knowledge helps the Nenets to travel in the tundra, find good pastures for their domesticated reindeer herds, select proper places for making their camps, find firewoo...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:346307e01ee442708ba683e15bf6b8da 2023-11-12T04:13:40+01:00 The Yamal Nenets’ traditional and contemporary environmental knowledge of snow, ice, and permafrost Roza Laptander 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14353-280306 https://doaj.org/article/346307e01ee442708ba683e15bf6b8da EN eng Resilience Alliance https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss3/art6 https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087 1708-3087 doi:10.5751/ES-14353-280306 https://doaj.org/article/346307e01ee442708ba683e15bf6b8da Ecology and Society, Vol 28, Iss 3, p 6 (2023) climate change icing events nenets reindeer herding permafrost snow terminology traditional environmental knowledge Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14353-280306 2023-10-15T00:36:32Z Traditional knowledge about snow and ice conditions on and in the ground is essential in the life of the Yamal Nenets. This holistic knowledge helps the Nenets to travel in the tundra, find good pastures for their domesticated reindeer herds, select proper places for making their camps, find firewood, and locate clean snow or ice for drinking water. It is particularly important for reindeer herders, because looking at different characteristics of snow (layers, hardness, and granularity) enables them to find good pastures for their animals. If there are dangers posed by a crust of ice on the snow, herders have to move their herds to other pastures. Moreover, even reindeer know which kind of snow is easier for them to break with their hooves and where good forage is found. Significantly, the Nenets language has developed a sophisticated terminology describing different types of snow and ice, and similarly permafrost has a special name. Like many other Indigenous peoples of Siberia, the Nenets have noticed that climate change in the Arctic is dramatically affecting their life: it is changing the tundra landscape, the seasons, and the conditions under which they live and herd reindeer. In consequence, the reindeer-herding culture itself helps the people to preserve this knowledge of how to live in the tundra, but to remain relevant, the Nenets’ knowledge of tundra ecology and their words for snow, ice, and permafrost must continuously adapt to new realities of the tundra. However, if that culture disappears in the Yamal, this resource will also be difficult to save. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Ice nenets permafrost Tundra Siberia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Ecology and Society 28 3 |
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Traditional knowledge about snow and ice conditions on and in the ground is essential in the life of the Yamal Nenets. This holistic knowledge helps the Nenets to travel in the tundra, find good pastures for their domesticated reindeer herds, select proper places for making their camps, find firewood, and locate clean snow or ice for drinking water. It is particularly important for reindeer herders, because looking at different characteristics of snow (layers, hardness, and granularity) enables them to find good pastures for their animals. If there are dangers posed by a crust of ice on the snow, herders have to move their herds to other pastures. Moreover, even reindeer know which kind of snow is easier for them to break with their hooves and where good forage is found. Significantly, the Nenets language has developed a sophisticated terminology describing different types of snow and ice, and similarly permafrost has a special name. Like many other Indigenous peoples of Siberia, the Nenets have noticed that climate change in the Arctic is dramatically affecting their life: it is changing the tundra landscape, the seasons, and the conditions under which they live and herd reindeer. In consequence, the reindeer-herding culture itself helps the people to preserve this knowledge of how to live in the tundra, but to remain relevant, the Nenets’ knowledge of tundra ecology and their words for snow, ice, and permafrost must continuously adapt to new realities of the tundra. However, if that culture disappears in the Yamal, this resource will also be difficult to save. |
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