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Reindeer dairying in the Soviet Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Gail Fondahl
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Abstract

Reindeer milk is used by native peoples throughout the Soviet North. This article describes how different groups use, or have in the past used, the milk in raw and processed form. After summarizing the properties of reindeer milk, it outlines a neglected chapter in the history of domesticated animals: the attempt in the 1930s to set up a commercial reindeer dairy industry in the USSR. Lastly, it analyzes the decline of reindeer milking among peoples of the Soviet north in this century.

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