views from the Yamal peninsula Dmitry Arzyutov Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St.Petersburg, Russia; University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK arcticdomus.org

An Outlook of Field Data

 Yamal, April-May  Reindeer samples  Interviews  Photos  Field diary  Field report is published in “Materials of field works” in St.Petersburg (2014) in Russian

Animal ‘Society’ in the Kinship paradigm (as an article, might be for HAU journal)

 Close relations with family members living in one tent ( chum )  Sharing food during the day and sleeping place at night  Mutual sleeping when heart is out = “warm relations”  Strategies of dogs binding to the chum framework

 Constructing dog genealogy through he exchanges between tents ( chums ).  Knowing human beings and “control” of living place.  Urine signs of the dogs around living places and human-made objects

 The tent of family where all of its members live on one side of the tent  Different space sharing at night and during the day. Human beingsHuman beings dogsdogs

 Reindeer far from the chum  Herd of reindeers as ‘collective’  Tendency to separate herd from the other herds (endogamy strategy): since reindeers can mix and change their “character”

 Constructing reindeer genealogies through human genealogy  The story of herd is the story of husband and wife including patri- and matrilinear ancestors

 David Schneider (1968, 1984), Janet Carsten (2000, 2004) and Marshal Sahlins (2011a-b, 2013). Kinship as a “mutual being”  Mutual practices and creation of animal biography through exchange relations and patri- and matrilineal genealogies  Common stories and co- existence as a background of human-animal fictive kinship where animals play important role

Towards an Anthropology of Speed (as a paper at the panel, ICASS, Canada)

 Wild reindeer means fast reindeer among Nenets  Every spring ёркол ӑ в ӑ there is a practice of reindeer speed regulation and technics of driving in corral  Herdsmen use special wood tools to regulate the reindeer speed and rhythm of movement  Regulation of speed as a technics of reindeer domestication

Pets in the Nenets Tent

 Cats have been inhabiting in Nenets chums for approximately last fifteen years  Nenets use them in ritual against wolves. There is an idea wolf is afraid of cats  As friends of mine tell me cat in tundra ‘dedomesticating’ ( zvereet ).  I have collected just several stories and this topic should be researched in near future

Nenets animal ‘ethnicity’; Archival work

 Human beings  Reindeer  Dog  Cats  Fish Herdsman is calling up reindeer with fish and words: “khale, khale… (‘fish, fish…’)”

 Reconstruction of the history of “Nenets” Reindeer Specie and “Samoed” Dog Specie in Science and Anthropology.  What does “ethnic” name of animal species mean?  Why is there a difference between Samoed and Nenets animal species naming?  Relations between ethnogenesis concept in the Soviet ethnography and naming animal species.

 Working with Verbov archive in MAE RAS. Preparing for publication his article “Nenets Reindeer Husbandry” (1930s) with detailed description of technics, tools reindeer driving. He as an ethnographer lived among European, Yamal and Taimyr Nenets several years and collected a lot of material on their culture, language and economy.