The predicament of Chukotka's indigenous movement
Subtitle: post-Soviet activism in the Russian far north
By: Patty A. Gray.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug; Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug -- Government relations; Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug -- Politics and government; Indigenous peoples -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug -- Social conditions; Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug (Russia) -- History; Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug (Russia) -- Politics and government; Chukotskiĭ avtonomnyĭ okrug (Russia) -- Social life and customs; Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991; Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991-; Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Description: "The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous Movement is the first ethnography of the Russian North to focus on post-Soviet relations of domination between an indigenous minority and a nonindigenous majority in an urban setting. As Patty Gray investigates indigenous attempts in Chukotka to overcome this domination, she develops an anthropological approach to social movements that captures the "in-between" that is more than everyday resistance, but less than a full-blown movement. In the process, this book explores the post-Soviet transition as it occurred in the part of Russia that is America's closest Eurasian neighbor: Chukotka nearly touches Alaska across the Bering Strait."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.