Challenging the state educational system in Western Siberia:taiga school by the Tiuitiakha River

• Main Author: Dudeck, Stephan
• Other Authors: Kasten, Erich, Graaf, Tjeerd de
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Kulturstiftung Sibirien 2013
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/3; name=Social anthropology; Magga; khanty; khanty-mansi; nenets; taiga; Mansi; Siberia
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/4b0693ec-5936-4abc-8216-54b8e08d8aac; http://www.siberian-studies.org/publications/PDF/sikdudeck.pdf

It is common knowledge that indigenous populations who preserve their own lifestyles that are different from the mainstream societies in their home countries face disadvantages in education all over the world. In this regard, Western Siberian reindeer herders of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets people a...