Leaving Footprints in the Taiga : : Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters / / Donatas Brandišauskas.
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. “Catching luck” is one such strategy that plays a central...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the Circumpolar North ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Maps and Figures
- Preface
- A Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: Luck, Spirits and Places
- Chapter one. People I Lived With: Community, Subsistence and Skills
- Chapter two. Luck, Spirits and Domination
- Chapter three. Sharing, Trust and Accumulation
- Chapter four. ‘Relying on My Own Two’ Walking and Luck
- Chapter five. Living Places: Tracking Animals and Camps
- Chapter six. Mastery of Time: Weather and Opportunities
- Chapter seven. Herding, Hunting and Ambiguity
- Chapter eight. Rock Art, Shamans and Healing
- Chapter nine. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck
- Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms
- Bibliography
- Index