PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tatiana Argounova-Low
TI  - Close Relatives and Outsiders: Village People in the City of Yakutsk, Siberia
AID  - 10.1353/arc.2011.0072
DP  - 2007 Feb 06
TA  - Arctic Anthropology
PG  - 51--61
VI  - 44
IP  - 1
4099  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/44/1/51.short
4100  - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/44/1/51.full
SO  - Arctic Anthropol2007 Feb 06; 44
AB  - The paper presents a snapshot of the city-village connections in the city of Yakutsk and an anthropological account of the dynamics of the relationship between the city and villages around it. Demographic changes that started in the 1980s, prompted by a decline in agriculture, initiated an exodus of the rural population from the countryside into the city of Yakutsk. This paper explores the migration dynamics of the rural population to the city. Two conflicting aspects of the relationship between the city and village are the focus of this paper: treating village people as close kin and as outsiders. I examine the image of ulusnik [a villager] and consider rationales behind the stigma attached to it and a social role of the Other which is imposed on the people from the countryside.↵Tatiana Argounova-Low, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen Dunbar Street, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, Great Britain