Off-the-Grid Life of Arctic Nomads: Social Generating of Electricity in the Northern Yamal

• Published in: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences
• Main Authors: Arzyutov, Dmitry V., Арзютов, Д. В.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Сибирский федеральный университет. Siberian Federal University 2019
• Subjects: ethnography; electricity; nomads; Nenets; development of the North; Arctic; этнография; электричество; кочевники; ненцы; освоение Севера; Арктика; Yamal Peninsula; nenets; Tundra; Ненцы
• Online Access: http://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/112616; https://doi.org/10.17516/1997–1370–0454

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 Based on historical documents and field data the author reconstructs a history of the electrification of the northern part of the peninsula.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...