Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters (Studies in the Circumpolar North, 1) - 9781789205329
Berghahn Books
ISBN13:
9781789205329
$42.75
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandiauskas 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. Brandiauskas 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.
- | Author: Donatas Brandiauskas
- | Publisher: Berghahn Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 09, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 305 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1789205328
- | ISBN-13: 9781789205329
- Author:
- Donatas Brandiauskas
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:
- Aug 09, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 305 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1789205328
- ISBN-13:
- 9781789205329