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«IN THE OLD DAYS THERE WERE NO GARDENS AT ALL, AND NOW EVEN TWO GARDENS AIN’T ENOUGH…» (TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE HUNTING-FISHING CULUTRE OF MIDDLE-OB SELKUPS) // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2014. Issue 4 (6). P. 64-73

The paper explores the agricultural practices of middle-Ob (Narym) Selkups. The agricultural practices in question imply the cultivation of soil for cereals and garden cultures. The discussion reviews possible sources of agricultural tradition in local Samoyedic population, estimated length of adaptation of agricultural skills, and the initial results of cultivation of cereal and garden cultures. In the process of the study, it was identified that until the XVII cent. the middle-Ob Selkups did not practice agriculture. The original culture demonstrated the typical forest hunter-fisher culture. The initial introduction of agricultural technology can be dated to the initial settlement of Russian population in the Narym area in the XVII century. The analysis produced a set of conclusions: regardless of isolated attempts, cereal cultivation failed to integrate into the Selkup culture for a variety of reasons; garden cultivation, as another external innovation, managed to integrate solidly, occasionally at the expense of the dominant traditional hunter-fisher economy. Synchronically, garden cultivation can be considered a stable component of the traditional Selkup economy.

Keywords: Selkups, agriculture in Siberia, innovation, cereal cultivation, garden cultivation, traditional food production

FLOUR AND BREAD IN SELKUP CULTURE // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2015. Issue 4 (10). P. 99-108

In this article, on a wide factual material addresses the issue of entry into the culture of the Selkups of flour and bread as food. Comparative cross-cultural analysis of ways to use flour and making bread: information from Selkup are compared with data collected from people living in adjacent territories – Vasyugan, Wachowski, Yugansk Khants, North (the fans) Selkups, kets, Nenets and other peoples of Western Siberia. The result of the study were the following conclusions: firstly, the widespread of bread in the culture of the Selkups refers to the period of settlement of the Narym Russian (XVII century); secondly, which appeared as an innovation, the bread has a firm place in the system of their traditional culture and production, life-supporting, social normative.

Keywords: flour, bread, traditional culture, power system, baking oven, hearth bread, middle Ob Selkup, Vasyugan-Vakh Khanty

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY OF THE OB RIVER SELKUP: FROM INNOVATION TO THE STABLE ELEMENT OF THE CULTURE // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2019. Issue 3 (25). P. 127-140

This paper refers to the problem of the origin of such sector of husbandry in traditional culture of the Ob River Selkup as animal husbandry. During investigations the author revealed that the reliable information about Selkup animal husbandry is dated back to the 18th – the beginning of the 19th century. It was at this time in a number of Selkup farms appear Pets. Analysis of the historical situation in which began to undergo the process of introducing the culture of the Selkups of livestock showed that the cause of this phenomenon is the increase in inter-ethnic contacts Selkup Russian population. There was also stated that deployment and development of animal husbandry in Selkulp culture spread from Ob River to its tributaries. Available sources show that the development of animal husbandry among the Selkups was uneven. On such tributaries of the Ob river as the ket river and the Tym river, animal husbandry by the end of the XIX century was poorly developed or it was completely absent. The first Pets on the river Tym appear only in the early XX century. The important role in spreading the skills of maintenance of domestic animals played inter-ethnic marriages (mainly marriages with Russians). At the first stage of this innovation the most common domestic animals in Selkup husbandry were horses, then (at the end of 19th – the beginning of 20th century) cattle (caws) became widespread; at this period the spread of sheep took place in Ob settlements. As the result, the author concludes that animal husbandry significantly changed the traditional Middle Ob Selkup Culture and influenced their traditional set of values. The new sector of the economy required major changes in the traditional economic cycle and the age-sex structure of the division of labor.

Keywords: Animal husbandry, Selkups, traditional economy, traditions, innovations

"STALIN'S CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT FOR THE RISE OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY": ABOUT THE BREEDING AND MAINTENANCE OF LIVESTOCK IN THE MIDDLE OB’ SELKUPS IN 1920–1940 // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2020. Issue 2 (28). P. 149-159

The paper is devoted to the development of animal husbandry among the Narym Selkups in the period 1920–1940. The analysis of the sources showed that at this period, Selkups maintained a steady interest in animal husbandry, which became an integral part of the ethnic culture for many of them. The paper focuses on the development of animal husbandry in the Tym river basin. In a short period of time Tym Selkups were able to join the livestock breeding tradition and include the maintenance of domestic animals in the scope of their economic activities. At the same time, if at the earlier stages, when the Central Ob Selkups acquainted with animal husbandry, and throughout the nineteenth century, the process of consolidating the skills to maintain livestock was natural (evolutionary), then during this period of time the conditions for external (state-administrative) influence on development of the Selkup livestock breeding tradition manifested greatly. This “external” influence was primarily due to the economic and ideological attitudes of this time. As a result, it is stated that in the twentieth century livestock breeding has firmly entered the culture of Selkups, radically changing their traditional way of life and economic priorities.

Keywords: The middle Ob Selkups, traditional agriculture, livestock, collectivization, the change of culture