"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language
reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first
book-size effort to address their plight and status from the
perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary
records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental
collaborative project." . Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution
In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration
initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on
the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples
living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil
war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local geographers and
ethnographers, the Polar Census grew into a massive ethnological
exercise, gathering not only basic demographic and economic data on
every household but also a rich archive of photographs, maps,
kinship charts, narrative transcripts and museum artifacts. To this
day, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of a rural
population anywhere. The contributors to this volume - all noted
scholars in their region - have conducted long-term fieldwork with
the descendants of the people surveyed in 1926/27. This volume is
the culmination of eight years' work with the primary record cards
and was supported by a number of national scholarly funding
agencies in the UK, Canada and Norway. It is a unique historical,
ethnographical analysis and of immense value to scholars familiar
with these communities' contemporary cultural dynamics and
legacy."
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