Transformation of daily food practices of indigenous peoples of Taimyr through the prism of environmental change

Senior curator, Siberia Foundation, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Peter the Great Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: bobrovva.vasilek@yandex.ru

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a trip to the Krasnoyarsk Krai in the spring of 2021. The work was carried out in the cities of Dudinka, Norilsk and in the settlements of Ust-Avam, Volochanka, Levinsky Peski of the Taimyr Dolgan-Nenets municipal district of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The main purpose of the study was to examine the transformation of the food system of the residents of the above-mentioned settlements, as well as to consider the problem of delivery of goods and their transportation to these remote settlements, and the impact of these difficulties on the life and economy of local residents. Environmental changes are also an important factor in the formation of local food resources. Their influence plays one of the main roles in the self-sufficiency of the peninsula residents in food supply. The work was conducted with various categories of the population: people of different ages, men and women, hunters, fishermen, hunters, reindeer breeders, representatives of the administration, employees of trading companies and people employed in the sphere of educational field.