Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2019 12 (8)
- Authors
- Davydova, Elena A.
- Contact information
- Davydova, Elena A.: Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS 3 University emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia; Chukotka branch of North-Eastern Federal University 3 Studencheskaia Str., Anadyr, 689000, Russia; ORCID: 0000–0002–9299–7551;
- Keywords
- anthropology of food; energy; reindeer herding; indigenous people; Chukotka; Arctic region; resources
- Abstract
The article investigates the changes in Chukotka residents’ diet during 20th‑21st centuries. The paper analyzes the archival and field materials related mainly to reindeer herders of the Amguema tundra. By comparing traditional and modern food practices in this local place I focus on the ways of acquiring, preserving, processing, and preparing food resources. The paper argues that the shifts in food practices and diet were accompanied by a transition to a new food autonomy regime. Today, as in the previous time, people aim to create nourishing, tasty and diverse food. In the pre-Soviet period people achieved this goal through the use of various cooking technologies, accumulation of local resources, and social ties with coastal Chukchi. Now, along with the listed strategies, they maximize their food resources due to purchased (but not home-made) products. As a result, a network of relations with the reindeer enterprise, state infrastructure, trade companies, material components of mobility, and mutual relations between the tundra and the village influence people’s sense of food security and ultimately limits their food autonomy
- Pages
- 1408-1424
- DOI
- 10.17516/1997–1370–0457
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/112619
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