Nenets
A Nenets family members
Probably the most many little cultural teams in Russia, the Nenets breed reindeer and crack jokes along with their gods. In line with the 2010 census, they range 44,640.
The Nenets inhabit tundra areas and migrate over the vast spaces that are open the coastline regarding the Arctic Ocean through the Kola Peninsula towards the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug. Like their ancestors, they dress in animal skins, utilize reindeer-drawn sleds, and build tents made, like their garments, from reindeer skins.
In the center of the chum (whilst the Nenets call their domiciles) appears a cast-iron moveable kitchen stove, referred to as a burzhuyka (“bourgeois woman”). Stoking it’s an solely feminine responsibility, which girls are taught to accomplish from a tremendously early age.
A Nenets woman with her young ones.
“The pre-entrance section of the chum could be the feminine component. The ladies are astonishingly proficient at managing the fire. Even little girls easily handle the coals, and kindle and fan the flames. They normally use a number of fuels — from black colored moss to dwarf birch trees, ” says Andrei Golovnev, ethnographer and writer of a documentary concerning the lifetime for the Nenets. Continuer la lecture de « 3 native individuals of Russia that despise civilization and survive as their ancestors bequeathed »