A5076707571- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Climate change and permafrost
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Rural development and sustainability
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Coal and Coke Industries Research
- Soviet and Russian History
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Engineering and Environmental Studies
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
George Mason University
2011-2024
Miami University
2003
This review provides an overview of foundational climate and culture studies in anthropology; it then tracks developments this area to date include anthropological engagements with contemporary global change. Although early were mainly founded archaeology environmental anthropology, the advent change, anthropology's roles have expanded engage local contexts. Considering both unprecedented urgency new level reflexivity that change ushers in, anthropologists need adopt cross-scale,...
Because global climate change is intimately linked to culture, anthropologists are strategically well‐placed interpret it, communicate information about and act in response it both the field at home. Fieldworkers increasingly encountering reports of local effects from their research partners, becoming apparent that indigenous peoples' recognized capacity for adaptation may not be sufficient cope with these effects. Fieldwork among Viliui Sakha northeastern Siberia suggests an action‐oriented...
Permafrost-agroecosystems include all cultivation and pastoral activities in areas underlain by permafrost. These systems support local livelihoods food production are rarely considered global agricultural studies but may become more relevant as climate change is increasing opportunities for high latitude mountainous areas. The exact locations amount of containing permafrost currently unknown, therefore we provide an overview countries where both present. We highlight the socioecological...
This paper analyzes findings from "Knowledge Exchanges," which engaged communities of Viliui Sakha, native horse and cattle agropastoralists northeastern Siberia, Russia, with regional scientific specialists, a cultural anthropologist, permafrost scientist. Our process knowledge exchange involved first gathering ethnographic data affected communities, through focus groups, interviews, surveys, analyzing how people perceived, understood, responded to local change. Next we documented the...
Global environmental change is more extreme than at any other time in recorded history. Its local realities increasingly uproot large numbers of people. climate accepted by both the scientific community and general public as a reality that must be addressed policy practice. The recent reports from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change affirm human-induced factors are responsible for generating significant increases temperatures around world. degradation ecosystems compounded effects...
This article explores the forms and functions of Sakhas' ohuokhai circle dance. Historically, Sakha are Turkic-speaking agropastoralists inhabiting subarctic Republic Russia. Originating as opening communal prayer during yhyakh festival, has both maintained an original sacred function and, over time, assumed others. defines origins its evolving through pre-Soviet, Soviet, post-Soviet times reveals that, despite continuing threats, continues because commitment initiative Viliui inhabitants.
Abstract This article explores how researchers can apply social science methods and theoretical frames to capture place-based communities are perceiving responding the immediate effects of global climate change. The study focuses on research with Viliui Sakha—native horse cattle breeders northeastern Siberia, Russia, who increasingly challenged by one change’s most prevalent effects: altered water regimes. By applying framework political ecology, shows better understand affected peoples...
A specialist on the Vilyuy Sakha, a native non-Russian people of northeastern Siberia, Russia, examines public health and environmental challenges threatening livelihood group. The paper presents case study political activism among Sakha in immediate post-Soviet period, as regional citizens were able to gain access information pollution caused by diamond mining other forms industrial development. demand for information, mobilization against proposals new mine development, emerged rapidly...
Contemporary survival for post-Soviet Russia's indigenous communities is complicated both by a Soviet legacy that undermined local ecological knowledge, kinship settlement patterns, land and resource rights, robust ecosystems, the contemporary effects of globalization modernity. Efforts to achieve sustainability lack focus on contexts, although recent research, especially in anthropology, underscores need develop criteria are flexible adaptable contexts. Community-based research Viliui Sakha...
Russia's indigenous peoples have been struggling with economic, environmental, and socio-cultural dislocation since the fall of Soviet Union in 1991. In northern rural areas, end most often meant agro-industrial state farm operations that employed fed surrounding populations. Most communities adapted to this loss by reinstating some form pre-Soviet household-level food production based on hunting, fishing, and/or herding. However, mass media, globalization, modernity challenge...
temperature event of sub-arctic winter, could perhaps become a story how things used to be, alerted me the cultural implications climate change.This elder's new way recounting Sakhas' age-old Jyl Oghuha was my "ethnographic moment" enter field change research.In response, I am conducting three-year NSF-funded research project, entitled: Assessing Knowledge, Resilience & Adaptation and Policy Needs in Viliui Sakha Villages Northeastern Siberia, Russia Facing Unprecedented Climate Change.The...
In recent years there has been much attention to coyote (Canis latrans) management in urban areas the USA. Many wildlife managers are searching for ways reduce and prevent human–coyote conflict that both effective acceptable their constituents. This article presents findings of research surveyed two neighboring suburbs Denver, Colorado metropolitan area differed approaches coyotes, formally informally. These provide an interesting case study with comparative power urban/suburban locations...
This article explores the shifting dynamics of utility ice and snow in rural settlements two areas Arctic, northeastern Siberia, Russia, Labrador/Nunatsiavut, Canada. In both areas, inhabitants, to a greater or lesser degree, continue historically based subsistence practices that depend on snow. main form is permafrost, which foundation hayfields people support their breeding horses cattle. Snow are also critical for horse herds, transportation, food preservation, hunting fishing practices,...