Substitution and Continuity in Southern Chukotka Traditional Rituals: A Case Study from Meinypilgyno Village, 2016–2017
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Konstantin Klokov
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 2, 2018, pp. 117-133
Description
Discusses the resilience of reciprocity rites practiced by the Chukotka people in Russia; describes how the people continued to practice these rites, which honour their relationships with the reindeer and the salmon on which they subsisted, even as the Soviet state reordered the social and economic structures in their region.