The Siberian World provides a window onto the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure.
Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation. The chapters examine a variety of interconnected themes, including language revitalization, legal pluralism, ecology, trade, religion, climate change, and co-creation of practices and identities with state programs and policies. The book's ethnographically-rich contributions highlight Indigenous voices, important theoretical concepts, and practices. The material connects with wider discussions of perception of the environment, climate change, cultural and linguistic change, urbanization, Indigenous rights, Arctic politics, globalization, and sustainability/resilience.
The Siberian World will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines, including, Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental history, political science, and sociology.
About the Author: John P. Ziker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, USA. His work focuses on social networks, climate change, and demography.
Jenanne Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Economics and Political Science in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her work in linguistic and sociocultural anthropology focuses on Indigenous and minority language revitalization, urbanization and globalization, and linguistic creativity/verbal art.
Vladimir Davydov is Deputy Director for Science at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg and research fellow in the Chukotka branch of North-Eastern Federal University, Anadyr, Russia. His work focuses on mobility, infrastructure, human-animal relations, reindeer herding, anthropology of food and history of Siberian ethnography.
