Bibliography and further reading

The books listed below are scientific literature. If you are in search of a well-written and exciting story you could try out the book by Piers Vitebsky, The Reindeer People.

Anderson, David G. 2000. Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia. The Number One Reindeer Brigade. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford: OUP.

Beach, Hugh 1981. Reindeer-Herd Management in Transition. The Case of Tuorpon Saameby in Northern Sweden. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 3. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.

Beach, Hugh 1986. Visit to a Siberian Sovkhoz. Antropologiska Studier 38-39: 73-79.

Beach, Hugh 1992. Reindeer Herding on the Kola Peninsula - Report of a Visit with Saami Herders of Sovkhoz Tundra. In: Readings in Saami History, Culture and Language III. Roger Kvist (ed.). University of Umea, pp. 113-142.

Donahoe, Brian R. 2002. "Hey, you! Get offa my taiga!": comparing the sense of property rights among the Tofa and Tozhu-Tyva. Working Paper No.38. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers. Halle/Saale: MPI. Online at http://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/wps/pdf/mpi-eth-working-paper-0038.pdf

Donahoe, Brian R. 2003. A Line in the Sayans: History and Divergent Perceptions of Property Among the Tozhu and Tofa of South Siberia. UMI Microform.

Forbes, B. C., M. Bölter, L. Müller-Wille, J. Hukkinen, F. Müller N. Gunslay, Y. Konstantinov, eds. 2006. Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe: Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems. Ecological Series No184. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

Gray, Patty A. 2001.The Obshchina in Chukotka: Land, Property and Local Economy. Working Paper No.29. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers. Halle/Saale: MPI. Online at http://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/wps/pdf/mpi-eth-working-paper-0029.pdf

Habeck, Joachim Otto 2005. What it means to be a herdsman. The practice and image of reindeer husbandry among the Komi of Northern Russia. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Vol. 5. Münster: Lit.

Hukkinen J., L. Müller-Wille, P. Aikio, O. Jääskö, A. Laakso, H. Magga, S. Nevalainen, O. Pokuri, K. Raitio and N. West 2006. Development of Participatory Institutions for Reindeer Management in Finland: A Diagnosis of Deliberation, Knowledge Integration and Sustainability. In: Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe: Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems. Bruce C. Forbes, ed. Ecological Series No184. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, pp.47-73.

Ingold, Tim 2000. The Perception of the Environment. Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill. London and New York: Routledge.

Jernsletten, Johnny-Leo L. and Konstantin Klokov 2002. Sustainable Reindeer Husbandry.Arctic Council 2000-2002. Tromsø: Centre for Saami Studies, University of Tromsø.

Konstantinov, Yulian 1997. "Memory of Lenin" Ltd.: Reindeer-herding brigades on the Kola Peninsula. Anthropology Today 13 (3): 14-19.

Konstantinov, Yulian 2002. Soviet and Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Collectives: Transitional Slogans in Murmansk Region. In: People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia. Erich Kasten, ed. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 171-189.

Konstantinov, Yulian 2004. Towards a model of comparing transitional forms in Russian Reindeer Herding. Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology No 70. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute. Online version at http://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/wps/pdf/mpi-eth-working-paper-0070.pdf

Konstantinov, Yulian 2005. Reindeer Herders: Field-Notes from the Kola Peninsula. Dissertations and Dociments in Cultural Anthropology. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

Konstantinov, Yulian and Vladislava Vladimirova 2002. "Ambigious transition: agrarian reforms, management, and coping practices in Murmansk region reindeer herding". Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper 35. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Online version at
http://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/wps/pdf/mpi-eth-working-paper-0035.pdf

Konstantinov, Yulian and Vladislava Vladimirova 2006. Changes in Property Regimes and Reindeer Herding Management in Post-Soviet Herding Collectives: The Case of the Municipality of Lovozero (Murmansk Region, Northwest Russia). In: Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe: Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems. Bruce Forbes et al., eds. Ecological Series No184. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, pp. 117-137.

Krupnik, Igor 1993. Arctic Adaptations. Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia. Hanover and London: Dartmouth College.

Paine, Robert 1994. Herds of the Tundra. A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai V. 2003. The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University.

Stammler, Florian 2005. Reindeer Nomads Meet the Market: Culture, Property and Globalisation at the "End of the Land". Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Vol. 6. Münster: Lit-Verlag.

Thuen, Trond 1995. Quest for Equity: Norway and the Sami Challenge. St.John's, Newfoundland: ISER.

Ventsel, Aimar 2005. Reindeer, Rodina and Reciprocity: Kinship and Property Relations in a Siberian Village. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Vol. 7. Münster: Lit.

Vitebsky, Piers 2005. The reindeer people: living with animals and spirits in Siberia. Glasgow: Harper Collins.

Vladimirova, Vladislava 2006. Just Labor: Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Community. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitetet.

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