Off-the-Grid Life of Arctic Nomads: Social Generating of Electricity in the Northern Yamal
This article deals with the ethnographic analysis of the history and social life of electricity among Nenets in the Yamal Peninsula. Based on historical documents and field data the author reconstructs a history of the electrification of the northern part of the peninsula. This work also includes th...
| Published in: | Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Сибирский федеральный университет. Siberian Federal University
2019
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| Online Access: | http://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/112616 https://doi.org/10.17516/1997–1370–0454 |
| Summary: | This article deals with the ethnographic analysis of the history and social life of electricity among Nenets in the Yamal Peninsula. Based on historical documents and field data the author reconstructs a history of the electrification of the northern part of the peninsula. This work also includes the reflections on social and cultural meanings of electricity among Nenets in and out the tundra. Through these historical and current dynamics, the author suggests analysing the life of electricity in off-the-grid settings through the lens of transnational technological entanglements in the Arctic Настоящая статья представляет собой попытку этнографического анализа истории и современной социальной жизни электричества у ненцев Ямала. На основании исторических документов и этнографических данных автор выстраивает картину электрификации севера полуострова, обращая внимание на социальные и культурные метаморфозы, которые происходят в среде оленеводов, и показывая, как эти изменения связаны в локальном, национальном и транснациональном измерении |
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