Changes in praxis of regulating access of some Siberian reindeer herders to the natural resources

Authors

  • Brian Donahoe Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
  • Kirill V. Istomin Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Keywords:

traditional farmstead; land tenure; reindeer breeding; hunting; transforms; praxes; Siberia; Tofalars; Todzha Tuvans; Nenets people; comparative study

Abstract

Praxis of land tenure and legislation of land use at reindeer herders and hunters is flexible and labile: they continuously adapt to the changing conditions of ecologic and social environment. Thus studies of transforms of those praxes affected by ecologic and social factors are of a special interest.

Article has first been printed in yearly issue of "Races and people” in 2007, No. 33. It is being reprinted in our magazine by a kind permission of an executive editor of the annals D.A. Funk.

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Published

30.11.2010

How to Cite

Donahoe, B. and Istomin, K. V. (2010) “Changes in praxis of regulating access of some Siberian reindeer herders to the natural resources”, The New Research of Tuva, 4. Available at: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/474 (Accessed: 22.11.2024).

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Author Biographies

Brian Donahoe, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

PhD, Resercher

Kirill V. Istomin, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Candidate of History, Resercher