When the connectivity is lost: infrastructural uncertainty and reaction to it amongst the tundra nomads of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

• Published in: VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII
• Main Author: Istomin K.V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Tyumen Scientific Centre SB RA 2023
• Subjects: satellite phones; infrastructural failure; uncertainty; reindeer herding; nenets; Archaeology; CC1-960; Arctic; Nadym; Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Tundra; Yamalo Nenets; Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2023-62-3-16; https://doaj.org/article/62fcc03616c44eebb9c08463656428c3

The present paper contributes to the study of ‘infrastructural failures’ as one of the rapidly developing in recent times areas of the anthropology of infrastructure. In the focus of the research is a ‘failure’ of the satellite telephone communications in Russian Arctic, which occurred as a result o...