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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Studies in the Circumpolar North ; v. 1 |
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Studies in the Circumpolar North.
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| 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 |
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Chapter Nine -- Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and LuckGlossary of Orochen and Russian Terms; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandisauskas 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.' Brandisauskas 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oroch (Asian people) -- Russia (Federation) -- Transbaikalia
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Oroch (Asian people) -- Social life and customs
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Oroch (Asian people) -- Religion
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Reindeer herders -- Russia (Federation) -- Transbaikalia
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Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Transbaikalia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Ethnology
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Oroch (Asian people)
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Reindeer herders
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Russia (Federation) -- Transbaikalia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785332395 |
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1785332392 |
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