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

"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-sit...

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Superior document:Critical Green Engagements
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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
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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.