Urbanizatsiia i korennye narody Severa: vvedenie k teme nomera
[Urbanization and the Indigenous Peoples of the North: Introduction to the Special Issue]
Type of publication: Research Article
About author(s)
Ol'ga Povoroznyuk | olga-ap@mail.ru | Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Dmitriy Funk | d_funk@iea.ras.ru | Lomonosov Moscow State University
Keywords
russian north, arctic, indigenous peoples, city, urbanization, globalization, social and cultural change
Abstract
The article introduces the special theme of the issue focusing on social and cultural change among the indigenous peoples of the North in the context of intensifying globalization and urbanization. The authors (O.A. Povoroznyuk, D.A. Funk, P. Schweitzer, E. Ruttkay-Miklian, E. Liarskaya) discuss a range of topics and problems including the forms that urban settlements of indigenous peoples take; specificities of migration patterns; transformation of social structure and traditional cultural taboos; technosocial networks and politics of identity; impact of transportation infrastructure on ethnic and cultural composition of indigenous groups; and others.
Citation
Povoroznyuk, O.A., Funk D.A. 2016. Urbanizatsiia i korennye narody Severa: vvedenie k teme nomera [Urbanization and the Indigenous Peoples of the North: Introduction to the Special Issue]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 1: 5-9
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