Roza Laptander

University of Lapland · Arctic Centre

Yamal Nenets herders have historically developed a rich knowledge of lichens and vascular plants, which feature in the diet of their migratory reindeer herds in the tundra zone of northwest Siberia. In the Nenets language there are native names for certain species of lichens and other reindeer forage plants, including graminoids, herbs, shrubs, ber...

Official reindeer herding statistics are an invaluable source of data for both social and natural scientists wishing to understand and model ecological systems in the Arctic. However, as with all official statistics, reindeer herding statistics are subject to certain distortions emerging from the way they are collected and processed as well as from...

Land-based transport corridors and related infrastructure are increasingly extending into and across the Arctic in support of resource development and population growth, causing large-scale cumulative changes to northern socio-ecological systems. These changes include the increased mobility of people, goods and resources, and environmental impacts...

Assessing potential drivers of and linkages between sea ice retreat or thinning across Arctic Russia and maintenance of the ancient and unique social-ecological systems of the Indigenous reindeer-herding Nenets is a pressing task. Sea ice loss is accelerating in the Barents and Kara Seas in the northwestern region of Arctic Russia. Warming summer a...

Truly transdisciplinary approaches are needed to tackle the complex problems that the Arctic is facing at the moment. Collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers through co-creative research approaches can result in high-quality research outcomes, but crucially also address colonial legacies and power imbalances, enhance mutual...

The cult of stones and mountains among the Nenets is very well developed and has a significant role in their culture. In the Polar Ural Mountains there are several sacred mountains that are especially revered by the Nenets. The Soviet ethnographer Lyudmila Khomich[1] wrote that it has many similarities with the same cults of mountains among the Sam...

The cult of stones and mountains among the Nenets is very well developed and has a significant role in their culture. In the Polar Ural Mountains there are several sacred mountains that are especially revered by the Nenets. The Soviet ethnographer Lyudmila Khomich[1] wrote that it has many similarities with the same cults of mountains among the Sam...

The UK's National Health Service Covid‐19 ‘track and trace’ app was designed as a critical public health technology. So why has it encountered so much resistance? The authors compare alerts on the phone regarding exposure to possible Covid‐19 infection with messages from a Siberian nomad's domestic fire, which sometimes crackles warnings of potenti...

When rain falls on an existing cover of snow, followed by low temperatures, or falls as freezing rain, it can leave a hard crust. These Arctic rain on snow (ROS) events can profoundly influence the environment and in turn, human livelihoods. Impacts can be immediate (e.g. on human travel, herding, or harvesting) or evolve or accumulate, leading to...

By the example of Nenets oral stories, this article describes the features of transmission, memorization and narration of oral stories about the past, and the role of silence in narration. They contribute to the preservation or loss of memories of the past. The results of the study described the norms of preservation of Nenets individual and collec...

The Nenets represent the largest community of Uralic language speaking indigenous northern people of the Russian Federation. The spoken history of the Nenets includes individual life stories, personal biographies, stories about relatives, friends, and neighbours, historical narratives, individual songs, stories of songs and people who made these so...

In the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, the tundra Nenets and Northern Khanty languages are classified as identified and endangered. Forest Nenets is defined as an endangered language and the Selkup language is critically endangered. The present linguistic situation in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District shows that, despite the offic...

The Nenets live in severe and hard conditions of the Arctic nature. Their life style is based on reindeer breeding culture, hunting and fishing. Since many centuries they roam in the tundra, following all year round their reindeer. The Nenets herders spend outside most of their time all year round, working with reindeer. It can be snow, rain or jus...

When Nenets elders start to tell their stories they usually tell about how people used to get or to lose reindeer. Even the Nenets epos and folklore texts tell how Nenets used to get reindeer on the huge space of the tundra (Kuprinova 1957; 1960; Pushkareva 2001; Golovnev 2004). The main hero of the Nenets folklore stories, Wauli Neniang was a sort...

The Tundra Nenets have a very well developed oral history tradition, and they use different ways to disseminate this knowledge and memories. This paper examines Nenets' oral history within the transformation of collective and personal memories about early collectivization in the tundra under the Soviet regime. The Nenets are a flexible society and...

Sea ice loss is accelerating in the Barents and Kara Seas (BKS). Assessing potential linkages between sea ice retreat/thinning and the region's ancient and unique social–ecological systems is a pressing task. Tundra nomadism remains a vitally important livelihood for indigenous Nenets and their large reindeer herds. Warming summer air temperatures...

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Interview protocols, Dataset sources and Monthly averages for AIRS and ERA-Interim

Interview protocols, Dataset sources and Monthly averages for AIRS and ERA-Interim

The Nenets, like many other Arctic nations of the Russian Federation, developed their first official writing system at the beginning of the 20th century. However, they certainly had a form of literature before this time. Like many other northern nations, they already had highly developed oral traditions and folklore. During the Soviet era, the loca...

Each political change in the former USSR and Russian Federation has had different influences on the lives of local populations in different areas. Nenets, like many other indigenous people of the Russian North, were not tied to any political situation. The perception was that they always lived independently in the tundra using their traditional and...

This article describes the modernization of the education system for the indigenous people of the North by providing an example of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district.

The population of the Northern Western part of the Yamal-Nenetskij Autonomous District (Western Siberia, Russia) is represented by diverse ethnic groups. The most numerable of them are Komi-Zyrjans, Siberian Tatars and Russians, who came to this area approximately 300 years ago. The indigenous population is represented by Nenets, Khanty, and Selkup...

В словаре представлены материалы по говорам тундрового диалекта ненецкого языка, распространенным на территории Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа. Словарные статьи включают грамматические пометы, примеры употребления каждого слова в разных контекстах, извлеченных из фольклорных и литературных источников, а также собранных во время полевых исследов...