The Soviet Shop: Trade and Alcohol in the North of Ob (The Indigenous Population in the 1950-80s)
[Sovetskii magazin: torgovlia i alkogol’ na Obskom severe (korennoe naseleniie v 1950-1980-kh godakh)]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 21.06.2016
Accepted: 01.09.2016
About author(s)
Zoia Sokolova | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1083-5541 | sokolova.ran@yandex.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences (32-a Leninsky prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Keywords
indigenous peoples of the North, Khanty, Mansi, Selkup, Nenets, Evenki, trade, exchange, shop, store, supply and consumption, budget, cash, alcohol, alcoholism
Abstract
The article focuses on the organization of commerce and trade in rural settlements of the Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, Selkup, and Evenks in the 1950-80s, and is drawn on the author’s own field research. The author discusses a number of important issues such as the supply and delivery of goods and products; their variety and shortage; the relationship between trade and regional budgets; the significance of cash; the alcohol consumption patterns and the shares of alcohol in the sales, as well as the measures against alcoholism.
Citation
Sokolova, Z.P. 2017. Sovetskii magazin: torgovlia i alkogol’ na Obskom severe (korennoe naseleniie v 1950-1980-kh godakh) [The Soviet Shop: Trade and Alcohol in the North of Ob (The Indigenous Population in the 1950-80s)]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 1: 97-108
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