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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, describing the local and global forces of modernization that continue to challenge their survival, and will be of interest to environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, and post-Soviet Russia. 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
