Leaving Footprints in the Taiga - Luck, Spirits Ambivalence Among Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders

Informationen zum Autor Donatas Brandišauskas is Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies and Senior Researcher at the Department of History at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is Associate Researcher at the Centre of Arctic and Siberian Exploration at the Russian Academy of Science, and Associate Researcher at the University of Versailles (CEARC) in France. Klappentext Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandi¿auskas 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. Brandi¿auskas 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Preface A Note on Transliteration Introduction: Luck, Spirits and Places Chapter 1. People I lived With: Community, Subsistence and Skills Chapter 2. Luck, spirits and domination Chapter 3. Sharing, Trust and Accumulation Chapter 4.'Relying On My Own Two': Walking and Luck Chapter 5. Living Places: Tracking Animals and Camps Chapter 6. Mastery of Time: Weather and Opportunities Chapter 7. Herding, Hunting and Ambiguity Chapter 8. Rock Art, Shamans and Healing Chapter 9. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms     Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Donatas Brandi¿auskas, Donatas Brandisauskas, Donatas Brandišauskas, Brandisauskas Donatas
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781789205329
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-532-9
• No. of pages: 305
• Series: Studies in the Circumpolar North; Studies in the Circumpolar Nor
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Siberia, Anthropology (General), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies