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Under Soviet administration, communal, collective production was introduced among the Nenets, with reindeer keeping remaining the main activity. Reindeer breeding provides the Nenets with meat, lard, and blood for food; skins for making clothes, footwear, and winter tents; leather for making lassos, harnesses, and summer footwear; tendons for ...
Aug 3, 2018 · The Nenet culture and way of life has survived the Soviet collectivisation of reindeer herding and Stalin’s efforts of ethnic cleansing, only to face new issues of a modern kind. The effects of climate change and the pursuit of natural resources continually threaten their ability to use their native land as earlier generations have done.
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History of the Nenets. The proto-Samoyeds migrated to the Arctic in the first millenium BC from the Altai-Sayan region near Mongolia. There, they interbred with a short-statured aboriginal Arctic people, and became the Nenets. Those short-statured aboriginal people live on today in Nenets legends as Sihirtia.
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Traditionally, the Nentsy lived in non-permanent settlements in a clan-based social structure, small bands all belonging to a clan name based on paternal descent. They were nomadic, migrating seasonally through the tundra and forests due to both economic and religious reasons; their shamanistic and animistic belief system stressed respect for the l...
There are two distinct groups based on the Nenets economy: the Tundra Nentsy (living far to the north) and the Khandeyar or Forest Nentsy. A third group, Kominized Nentsy (Yaran people) has emerged as a result of intermarriages between Nenets and the Izhma tribe of the Komi peoples. The Nentsy still continue to bear mongoloid characteristics: commo...
Janhunen, Juha. Glottal stop in Nenets. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1986. (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran toimituksia; 196). ISBN 9519403035Salminen, Tapani. Tundra Nenets Inflection. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1997. (Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia; 227). ISBN 952515002XSammallahti, Pekka. Material from Forest Nenets. Helsinki, 1974. (Castrenianumin Toimitteita; 2). ISBN 9514502825Stammler, Florian. Reindeer Nomads Meet the Market: Culture, Property and Globalisation at the "End of the Land". Lit Verlag, 2006. ISBN 382588046XAll links retrieved May 16, 2023. 1. Endangered Uralic Peoples 2. The Red Book of the peoples of the Russian Empire 3. Nenets Tribe BBC 4. Gallery of Nenets Images
The Nenets, of all ages, take part in the mammoth task of moving countless reindeer from one part of their northern wastelands to another. In the morning, the herders get the deer running around ...
Jul 1, 2015 · The culture of the indigenous people of the Russian Arctic eroded under Soviet collectivization and now their land is endangered due to modern oil and gas exploration, February 2011. Justin Jin...
Dec 1, 2001 · Nenets, one of the few groups who after the demise of the Soviet Union, successfully revived private reindeer herding and have actively preserved other elements of...
