Grænselandsidentiteter – om tilhørsforhold og lokale handlemåder i et postsovjetisk rum

Abstract: Borderland identities – on belonging and local ways of doing things in a post-Soviet placeIn this article we take closer look at identity ‘belonging’ within the Indigenous communities Chukotka, Russian Far East. During Soviet era, was glorified, whereas life, languages ethnic peoples were suppressed stimatized. With collapse Union 1991, entire region sank into severe economic ideological crisis, forcing people to return traditional surviving, stimulating their interest roots, alternative spiritual values new identities. Based own empirical material, analyse facets practices among those who identify as Yupik are related Inuit Greenland. Relying Ortega’s notion hometactics, focus activities use certain words amulets homes, consumption foods, performance sacred rituals songs associated with past that forge sense familiarity everyday spaces for people, showing how is constructed, enacted, attributed meaning interaction life.