People on the move: The Use of Space by Northern Baikal Evenkis in the Context of Socio-Economik Changes

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This book is about the mobility of Baikal Evenki hunters, reindeer herders and fishermen and their engagement with living in the world through the structures they build and use in the context of numerous development projects and innovations. This work suggests a shift from the static perspective where local people’s spatial practices were analysed through the prism of their relationship to a particular stationary structure to a dynamic one where a structure is interpreted as embedded in a complex network of movements connecting a number of locations. It sees movements as a creative process which serves as an expression of local people’s own ideas and views. This is a monograph about people for whom to move means to live. This book might be useful for a wide range of specialists interested in mobility studies, anthropology of infrastructure, Evenki (Tungus) ethnography and history of northern Baikal region.

Данная книга посвящена исследованию мобильности северобайкальских эвенков-охотников, оленеводов и рыбаков и их вовлеченности в жизнь в мире через материальные объекты, которые они конструируют и используют в контексте многочисленных проектов развития и инноваций. Эта работа предлагает переход от статической точки зрения, когда пространственные практики местных жителей анализировались через призму их отношения к конкретной стационарной структуре, к динамической, где структура интерпретируется как встроенная в сложную сеть движений, соединяющих ряд мест. Мобильность рассматривается как творческий процесс, который служит выражением собственных идей и взглядов местных жителей. Это монография о людях, для которых двигаться значит жить. Книга может быть полезна широкому кругу специалистов, интересующихся изучением мобильности, антропологией инфраструктуры, эвенкийской (тунгусской) этнографией и историей Северного Прибайкалья.

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1. Introduction

1.1. The Ideology of Settlements in Russian Scientific and Administrative Discourse and Perception of Home by Local People
1.2. Idioms of ’Sedentarism’ and Movement
1.3. Evenki-Tungus Ethnography in the Northern Baikal Region
1.4. Description of the Fieldwork Site
1.5. `Development Projects` versus `Life Projects`
1.6. Use of Space in the Context of Innovations: Book Overview
2. `Intensive Space`

2.1. Iasak and Soviet `Fur Tribute`
2.2. Protected Areas in the Northern Baikal Region
2.3. Collective Institutions from Artel` to Sovkhoz
2.4. The Establishment of Rural Infrastructure
2.5. The Soviet Village and the `National` Village
3. Temporality and Spatiality of Practices

3.1. Geographic Talk
3.2 Short-term Movements
3.3. Long-term Movements
3.4. The Village as a Point of Constant Return
4. Stationary and Mobile Structures

4.1. The Temporary Use of the Village
4.2. Early Evenki Settlements: Stationary Structures and Classifications Categories
4.3. Different Ways of Interpreting Movement
4.4. An Island of Agriculture
4.5. Selective Mobility
4.6. Narrow Valleys
4.7. Stationary and Mobile Structures in Post-Soviet Space
5. The Appropriation of Infrastructure

5.1. Improvised Means and Local Creativity
5.2. The Cannibalisation of material objects
5.3. Opportunistic Livelihood
5.4. House Exchange
6. Common Access to Space: Local People and Industrial Development

6.1. Common Trails
6.2. On the Course of Industrial Development
6.3. Geological Surveys and Reindeer Porters
6.4. The Local Landscape and the Intensive Nature of Exploitation
6.5. Mutual Aid
7. Conclusion: Movement as a Way of Life

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Archival Sources
Table of Figures
Index
Summary
Information about the Author