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Leaving Footprints in the Taiga : Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters / Donatas Brandišauskas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the Circumpolar North ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332388
  • 9781785332395
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.894/1 23/eng/20240417
LOC classification:
  • DK759.O7 B73 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Chapter nine. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck -- Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Chapter nine. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck -- Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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