Arctic Mirrors - Russia and the Small Peoples of the NorthPaperback
Arctic Mirrors - Russia and the Small Peoples of the NorthPaperback For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. They rove around,…
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Arctic Mirrors - Russia and the Small Peoples of the NorthPaperback
For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people, complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests, reported a fifteenth-century tale.
They do not take off their hats and do not bow to each other, huffed an eighteenth-century scholar. Their actions are exceedingly rude. They are children of nature and guardians of ecological balance, rhapsodized early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century romantics.
Even the Bolsheviks, who categorized the circumpolar foragers as authentic proletarians, were repeatedly puzzled by the peoples from the late Neolithic period who, by virtue of their extreme backwardness, cannot keep up either economically or culturally with the furious speed of the