Mixed Communities in the Russian North; or, Why Are There No "Creoles" in Siberia?
This article deals with “Old-Settler” communities in northeastern Siberia that were founded by Russian settlers in the course of the seventeenth century. Left to their own devices by a distant colonial administration, many of them married native women and adopted local subsistence techniques and oth...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:ddeh:60/3/419 2023-05-15T18:07:59+02:00 Mixed Communities in the Russian North; or, Why Are There No "Creoles" in Siberia? Schweitzer, Peter P. Golovko, Evgeniy V. Vakhtin, Nikolai B. 2013-07-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/60/3/419 https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140749 en eng Duke University Press http://ethnohistory.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/60/3/419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140749 Copyright (C) 2013, American Society for Ethnohistory Creating Creoles and Being Creole in Siberia Russian America and Alaska TEXT 2013 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140749 2015-02-28T23:48:58Z This article deals with “Old-Settler” communities in northeastern Siberia that were founded by Russian settlers in the course of the seventeenth century. Left to their own devices by a distant colonial administration, many of them married native women and adopted local subsistence techniques and other elements of spiritual and material culture. These processes led to the emergence of new group identities, that is to communities that distinguished themselves both from Russians and from native groups. The article provides a brief history of such communities in northern Siberia, to set the regional context, before characterizing the three study communities as experienced by the authors during fieldwork in the late 1990s. In addition, we will briefly introduce the case of the Alaskan Creoles for comparative purposes, to contrast colonial regimes and attitudes to “ethnic mixing.” This will enable us to return to the title question and to reverse it, that is, to focus on the factors that led to the emergence of Creole status in Alaska. We will argue that changing colonial policies of the Russian state need to be taken into account in order to understand why there were no Creoles in Siberia. Text Russian North Alaska Siberia HighWire Press (Stanford University) Ethnohistory 60 3 419 438 |
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This article deals with “Old-Settler” communities in northeastern Siberia that were founded by Russian settlers in the course of the seventeenth century. Left to their own devices by a distant colonial administration, many of them married native women and adopted local subsistence techniques and other elements of spiritual and material culture. These processes led to the emergence of new group identities, that is to communities that distinguished themselves both from Russians and from native groups. The article provides a brief history of such communities in northern Siberia, to set the regional context, before characterizing the three study communities as experienced by the authors during fieldwork in the late 1990s. In addition, we will briefly introduce the case of the Alaskan Creoles for comparative purposes, to contrast colonial regimes and attitudes to “ethnic mixing.” This will enable us to return to the title question and to reverse it, that is, to focus on the factors that led to the emergence of Creole status in Alaska. We will argue that changing colonial policies of the Russian state need to be taken into account in order to understand why there were no Creoles in Siberia. |
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Mixed Communities in the Russian North; or, Why Are There No "Creoles" in Siberia? |
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