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Property rights and transformation in Russia: institutional change in the far north
Europe-Asia studies • 47 (7) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 1077-1108
By: Osherenko, Gail.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is an in-depth study of propery rights systems among the Nenets of Yamal Peninsula in Russia. It identifies three key resouce issues crucial for understanding the concept of property in the local herding economy. These are: 1) reindeer, 2) land in the form camp sites, pastures , migration routes, hunting grounds and fishing sites, and 3) local working economic arrangments in the context of processing, storing, marketing and transporting reindeer meat and other products. The discussion focuses on the shifts in rights to each of these types property during the Soviet Period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- History
- Real property
- Property in movables
- Research and development
- Government enterprises
- Territorial hierarchy
- Environmental quality
- Oil and gas wells
- Government regulation
- Ethnic stratification
- Cooperative organization
- Political movements
- Settlement patterns
- Land use
- Pastoral activities
- Individual enterprise
- Production and supply
- Economic planning and development
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nenets
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- North Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1992-1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yamal Peninsula, Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gail Osherenko
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93645761
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- NENTSY
- PROPERTY RIGHTS
- ECONOMIES IN TRANSITIOn
- HISTORY
- LAND LEGISLATION
- LAND USE
- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
- RUSSIAN FEDERATION