Sibirica

This paper discusses flexibility in subsistence and exchange strategies and family and community structures in an indigenous community on the lower Enisei River in north-central Siberia. An analysis of available data on mobility, resource use, and social and economic exchanges contributes to understanding the factors that affect resilience of indigenous domestic groups and communities in the region. The historic flexibility of economic strategies and related social structure is described on the basis of data from the 1926/27 Polar Census. Data from the author's 1997 visit to the area (the Tukhard community) illustrates very similar strategies and variation in deployment of these strategies. New patterns of organization are discussed in relation to the issues of community resilience and indigenous rights.

This article shows how native people in remote Siberian settlements address social distress in their communities by transmitting local knowledge through organizing leisure activities for children and youth. The author examines the rationale, discourses, and practices of indigenous activists to establish vacation camps and unpacks young people's narratives of how they relate to this particular leisure activity. The camps are creative sites of cultural production and social hubs for participants. While young people are open to influences of popular cultures available in urban centers and villages, they contrast the social solidarity of the vacation forest camps with the individualization and social distress in villages and towns.

Starting with instructional films about Finnish forestry in the 1970s, Markku Lehmuskallio has taken his cinematic vision progressively northward. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Leh mus kallio started intensive work among the Nenets, ultimately collaborating with Anastasia Lapsui to make remarkable “film poems“ among northern peoples at the edges of the world. Perhaps most impressive of their extensive Giron Film productions are the awardwinning Seven Songs of the Tundra (2000) and Earth Evocation (2009). This review essay focuses on their methods of representation of northern, native peoples over the course of their filmmaking career.

Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, eds.,The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Kendall House

Svetlana Vladimirovna Vasil'eva, Gosudarstvennaia konfessional'naia politika po otnosheniiu kstaroobriadchestvu v Baikal'skom regione XVII-XXI vv.: istoriografiia i istochniki Robert Montgomery

Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil, eds., Ceramics before Farming: The Dispersal of Pottery among Prehistoric Eurasian HunterGatherers Mark G. Plew

Melissa L. Caldwell, Dacha Idylls: Living Organically in Russia's Countryside Katy Fox

Books Received for Review