The Canadian Circumpolar Institute at the University of Alberta, Edmonton
and the University of Washington Press are pleased to announce the
publication of:
Neotraditionalism in the Russian North: Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy
of Perestroika
Edited by Aleksandr Pika, Russian Academy of Sciences
Edited for the English edition by Bruce Grant, Swarthmore College
With a new Afterword by Boris Prokhorov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Description:
The advent of perestroika and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union
have had an enormous impact on indigenous peoples in the Russian Arctic.
Neotraditionalism in the Russian North probes the attendant cultural,
political and economic issues guiding Russian state policy toward Siberian
peoples in the post-Soviet age. Growing from a report first submitted to the
Russian parliament, it became a major building block for new legislation on
the treatment of northern minority peoples in the new Russia.
For this English edition, seven translators in North America (David
Anderson, Gail Fondahl, Bruce Grant, Patty Gray, Christina D. Kincaid,
Alexander D. King and David Koester) edited and annotated the original
Russian text, first published in 1994. New translations of selected
Russian legislation affecting Siberian indigenous peoples, a guide to
Russian and Siberian terms, and photographs taken by the late Aleksandr
Pika enhance the work's utility as a handbook for academics, activists,
journalists and NGOs involved with the Russian North.
To order in Canada, please contact:
Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press
ISBN 1-89645-12-8 paper. CDN $35.00
780-492-4512
780-492-1153 fax
canadian.circumpolar.institute [at] ualberta.ca
http://www.ualberta.ca/~ccinst/polar/cci-base.htm
To order in the United States, please contact:
The University of Washington Press
ISBN 0-295-97829-5 paper. US$30.00
800-441-4115 (U.S. only)
800-669-7993 fax (U.S. only)
Foreign Fax: 206-685-3460
uwpord [at] u.washington.edu
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/