Stepanova O. B. Revisting the Anthropogenic Landscape of the Basins of the Taz and Turukhan Rivers (17th — early 20th Centuries)

Olga B. Stepanova
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg, Russia
E-mail: stepanova67@mail.ru

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ABSTRACT. The basins of the Taz and Turukhan rivers are the territory populated by the northern Selkup. However, the anthropogenic landscape of this region has been the product of a complex interaction of several ethnic communities over a few centuries. The study covers the period from the beginning of the 17th century until the 1920s. For the Selkup, these temporary boundaries marked an era of radical change. In the 1620s the Selkup began to move from the Middle Ob to the North. Under the influence of Northern conditions and other peoples, they began to form a new people, with a new economic structure, a new way of life and culture. The end of the period in question, the 1920s, marked a transformation of the tradition that had developed within the Selkup community over the last three centuries.

KEYWORDS: Selkup, Russian, ethnography, man-made landscape, history of development, ethnic interactions

DOI 10.31250/2618-8619-2018-1-16-28

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