Reindeer People

Informationen zum Autor Piers Vitebsky is a noted anthropologist and deputy director (and Head of Social Sciences and Russian Studies) at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. An acknowledged expert on Shamanism, he has spent much of the last decade and more living amongst the Eveny people in Siberia. His previous books include Dialogues with the Dead (Cambridge) and The Shaman (Macmillan). Klappentext A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times. Zusammenfassung A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic! where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times.

Product details

• Authors: Piers Vitebsky, Vitebsky Piers
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2005
• EAN: 9780007133635
• ISBN: 978-0-00-713363-5
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; Travel > Illustrated books; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Russia, TRAVEL / Pictorials, TRAVEL / Russia, natural history, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works