Viliui Sakha Post-Soviet Adaptation: A Subarctic Test of Netting's Smallholder-Householder Theory

The Sakha of northeastern Siberia, Russia, are the highest latitude contemporary agropastoralists practicing horse and cattle husbandry. In the last 100 years their rural livelihood has gone from household-level subsistence food production in clan clusters of single-family homesteads scattered acros...

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Published in:Human ecology : an interdisciplinary journal 2003-12, Vol.31 (4), p.499-528
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Agricultural production
Animal husbandry
Children
Ethnology
Food production
Herds
Homo sapiens
Households
Human ecology, environment
Kinship
Meats
Milk
Minority & ethnic groups
Morphological source materials
Older adults
Parents
Rural areas
Social life & customs
Theory
Time management
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