Siberian Survival
The Nenets and Their Story
The authors -- one the head of a team of Russian ethnographers who have spent many seasons on the peninsula, the other an American attorney specializing in issues affecting the Arctic -- introduce the rich culture of the Nenets. They recount how Soviet authorities attempted to restructure the native economy, by organizing herders into collectives and redistributing reindeer and pasture lands, as well as to eradicate the native belief system, by killing shamans and destroying sacred sites. Over the past century, the Nenets have also witnessed the piecemeal destruction of their fragile environment and the forced settlement of part of their popu…
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Weitere Autoren: Osherenko, Gail
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-3631-4
- EAN: 9780801436314
- Produktnummer: 19611148
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.0 cm 548 g
- Abbildungen: 6 maps, 2 drawings, 32 page color insert
- Gewicht: 548
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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