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Today, the Nenets people face numerous challenges from the state and oil and gas companies that threaten the environment and their way of life. As a result, many cite a rise in locally based activism.
Aug 21, 2019 · New Path – A Window on Nenets Life by Alegra Ally is published by Schilt. All photographs: Alegra Ally/Schilt Publishing. Wed 21 Aug 2019 02.00 EDT 10.27 EDT. Lena (pictured) lives with her ...
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Yamal in the language of the indigenous Nenets means the end of the world; it is a remote, wind-blasted place of permafrost, serpentine rivers and dwarf shrubs, and has been home to the reindeer-herding Nenets people for over a thousand years. Today, the Nenets’ nomadic way of life is under threat from the effects of climate change, making ...
Apr 11, 2012 · Alan Taylor. April 11, 2012. 17 Photos. In Focus. In arctic northern Russia, industrialized resource extraction and climate change are presenting a double threat to the Nenets, an indigenous ...
With a territory around 1.5 times the size of France, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District (YNAO) is located in the West Siberian north, just northeast of the geographic border between Europe and ...
Aug 3, 2018 · The Nenets can trace their heritage back about a thousand years on the peninsula. Throughout this time, they have practiced their traditional methods of reindeer herding. In 1961, the Soviet Union collectivised the practice and established a handful of state-run farms. Herders were under fixed contracts and worked for a salary.
At present the Nenets are the largest group speaking Samoyedic, a branch of the Uralic language family. Their name comes from the word nenets meaning “man.”. Descended from people formerly inhabiting southwest Siberia, the Nenets are reindeer pastoralists, fishermen, and hunters (especially of wild reindeer) of the tundra, but they also ...
