1. Iugra:
Before the Russians
Vlast' and Volost': Russian power from 1600 to 1917
The Soviet era
2. Iakh and sir:
Kinship and residency, history and territoriality
Soul, conception, and rebirth
Adulthood and social identity
Courtship and marriage
Alcoholism, accidents, and violence
Being elderly
Death and transformation
Tradition, modernity, and 'being Khanty'
3. Traditions:
The Khanty world
Ordinary competence, religious practice, and the family sphere
Spirits, land, and kin
Pori and Yir: ritual communion
Communal rituals
Other communal rituals
4. Transformations: Cultural specialists and cultural change
Russian Orthodoxy
When the insider becomes the outsider
Khanty traditions
The politics of cultural survival
5. Kurlomkin : taiga hunter:
Land use in the Iugan Basin
The Kurlomkins of Bolshoi Iugan
Beyond the settlement: the family hunting territory
The domestic economy
Difficult futures
6. Kanterov : muskeg reindeer herder:
Historic land use on the Pim River
Kirill Kanterov and his brothers
The Kanterov family territory
The domestic economy
Conclusions
7. Black snow:
Post-Soviet administration
Defacing the land
Marginalization and the press of oil
Making way for oil
Reimaging land and community
Emergent types
8. Land, leadership, and community:
Oil, ethnicity, and Perestroika
The Obshchina movement
The fight to save the Iugan
9. Accommodation, resistance, and resilience:
Vectors of change
Revitalization, resistance, and revival - Strategies of cultural persistence
A resilient people.