 | Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story Subjects: Nenets -- History; Nenets -- Government relations; Nenets -- Social life and customs; Reindeer herding -- Russia (Federation)-Yamal Peninsula; Yamal Peninsula (Russia) -- Politics and government; Yamal Peninsula (Russia) -- Social life and customs; The Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia is one of the few remaining places on earth where a nomadic people retain a traditional culture. Here in the tundra, the Nenets--one of the few indigenous minorities of the Russian North--follow a lifestyle... Andrei V. Golovonev is Senior Field Anthropologist at the Institute of History and Archeology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Ekaterinburg and an award-winning ethnographic film maker. Gail Osherenko is an Associate of the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is coeditor, with Oran R. Young, of Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes , also from Cornell. |
