Once upon the permafrost : : knowing culture and climate change in Siberia / / Susan Alexandra Crate.

• Superior document: Critical Green Engagements
• VerfasserIn: Crate, Susan Alexandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Tucson : : The University of Arizona Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Green Engagements
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 327 pages) :; illustrations, maps

"Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about "knowing" a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change. Through careful integration of contemporary narratives, on-site observations, and document analysis, Susan Alexandra Crate shows how local understandings of change and the vernacular knowledge systems they are founded on provide critical information for interdisciplinary collaboration and effective policy prescriptions"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Transliteration and Transcription -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Knowing" Permafrost -- 2. Alaas: Sakha's Home on Permafrost -- 3. Alaas and Change: A Tale of Two Villages -- 4. Community-Level Understandings: From Climate Change to the Complexity of Change and Back -- 5. Windows into the Complexity of Change: Individual Life Histories -- 6. Gone the Alaas: Knowing Permafrost and Alaas in the 21st Century -- 7. We All Live on Permafrost: Sakha's Predicament in the Greater World Context of "Knowing" Climate Change -- Afterword -- A Note on Methods -- 2018 Household Interview Instrument -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.