Leaving Footprints in the Taiga
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-532-9 (ISBN)
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 role in Orochen cosmology -- luck implies a vernacular theory of causality based on active interactions of humans, non-humans, material objects, and places. Brandišauskas describes in rich details the skills, knowledge, ritual practices, storytelling, and movements that enable the Orochen to “catch luck” (or not, sometimes), to navigate times of change and upheaval.
Donatas Brandišauskas is Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies and Senior Researcher at the Department of History at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is Associate Researcher at the Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration at the Russian Academy of Science, and Associate Researcher at the University of Versailles (CEARC) in France.
List of Figures
Preface
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Luck, Spirits and Places
Chapter 1. People I lived With: Community, Subsistence and Skills
Chapter 2. Luck, spirits and domination
Chapter 3. Sharing, Trust and Accumulation
Chapter 4.‘Relying On My Own Two’: Walking and Luck
Chapter 5. Living Places: Tracking Animals and Camps
Chapter 6. Mastery of Time: Weather and Opportunities
Chapter 7. Herding, Hunting and Ambiguity
Chapter 8. Rock Art, Shamans and Healing
Chapter 9. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck
Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in the Circumpolar North |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78920-532-8 / 1789205328 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78920-532-9 / 9781789205329 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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