Anthropology of food in the panorama of the Kola Polar Region
English
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Journal’s Subject Headings:
History, ethnography, archeology
About author:
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: using the example of residents of remote northern settlements, the article considers cases of how conditions are created at the micro level of local communities to maintain a sense of food security and the potential of Arctic food resources is used in adaptation strategies.
Objective: to identify and descript the cases based on strategies for using the potential of food resources by local communities of the Kola Polar Region.
Research materials: the author’s field and cyberfield materials, theoretical and empirical research in the anthropology of food.
Results and novelty of the research: based on field research through the prism of food anthropology, we were able to identify and describe three different strategies for using the potential of food resources by local communities of the Kola Polar Region: initiative projects of “remote” in the village of Krasnoshchelye, the use of Arctic cuisine as a brand in the village of Teriberka, a tourist base on the river. Yokanga as a non-profit conservation project for Atlantic salmon. The presented cases not only illustrate the social life of various local communities, their strategies for adapting to modern living
conditions, but also allow us to evaluate the diversity of aspects of food as an object of study.
Key words: anthropology of food, nutrition, alimentary culture, Arctic, Kola Polar Region
Acknowledgements: the research was carried out at the expense of grant No. 19-78-10002 of the Russian Science
Foundation “Nutrition in the Russian Arctic: Resources, Technologies and Innovations”.
For citation: Danilova E. N. Anthropology of food in the panorama of the Kola Polar Region // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (2/53): 324–333.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: using the example of residents of remote northern settlements, the article considers cases of how conditions are created at the micro level of local communities to maintain a sense of food security and the potential of Arctic food resources is used in adaptation strategies.
Objective: to identify and descript the cases based on strategies for using the potential of food resources by local communities of the Kola Polar Region.
Research materials: the author’s field and cyberfield materials, theoretical and empirical research in the anthropology of food.
Results and novelty of the research: based on field research through the prism of food anthropology, we were able to identify and describe three different strategies for using the potential of food resources by local communities of the Kola Polar Region: initiative projects of “remote” in the village of Krasnoshchelye, the use of Arctic cuisine as a brand in the village of Teriberka, a tourist base on the river. Yokanga as a non-profit conservation project for Atlantic salmon. The presented cases not only illustrate the social life of various local communities, their strategies for adapting to modern living
conditions, but also allow us to evaluate the diversity of aspects of food as an object of study.
Key words: anthropology of food, nutrition, alimentary culture, Arctic, Kola Polar Region
Acknowledgements: the research was carried out at the expense of grant No. 19-78-10002 of the Russian Science
Foundation “Nutrition in the Russian Arctic: Resources, Technologies and Innovations”.
For citation: Danilova E. N. Anthropology of food in the panorama of the Kola Polar Region // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2023; 13 (2/53): 324–333.
