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Informationen zum Autor Susan A. Crate is a writer and scholar who conducts research in cultural and political ecology! enviornmental policy! sustainable community development! and global climate change in Siberia! Russia! and the circumpolar North. She is assistant professor of human ecology at George Mason University in Fairfax! Virginia. Klappentext Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is directly affected by the forces of modernization and globalization. She details the severe environmental and historical factors that continue to challenge their survival, and shows how the multi-million dollar diamond industry, in part run by ethnic Sakha, raises issues of ethnic solidarity and indigenous rights as well as environmental impact. Her new book addresses key topics of interest to both economic and environmental anthropology, and to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, and post-Soviet and environmental issues. Zusammenfassung Presenting a cultural ecological study of a Siberian people! the Viliui Sakha! this title describes the local and global forces of modernization that challenge their survival. It is suitable for environmental and economic anthropologists! as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development in Eurasia! and post-Soviet Russia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Foreword 2 Preface 3 Prologue 4 Chapter 1: At Home in Siberia 5 Chapter 2: Viliui Historical Ecology 6 Chapter 3: Cows-and-Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Post-Soviet Viliui Sakha Survival 7 Chapter 4: Having and Knowing Land 8 Chapter 5: An Environmental History of the Viliui 9 Chapter 6: Diamond Mining and Indigenous Rights in Comparative Context: The Case of Canadian Diamonds 10 Chapter 7: Investigating Viliui Sakha Sustainability 11 Chapter 8: Global Mining! Indigenous Peoples! and Sustainability 12 Epilogue ...
