The Reindeer People - 9780618773572
Un libro in lingua di Piers Vitebsky edito da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006
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In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual sustenance, enabling them to survive in the world's coldest inhabited region, the Siberian taiga, where winter ice freezes six feet thick and the temperature drops to ninety-six degrees below zero.
The book presents a gallery of unforgettable personalities, including shamans, psychics, wolves, bears, dogs, Communist Party bosses, daredevil aviators, and the spirits of fires and rivers. Based on nearly two decades of fieldwork, The Reindeer People is an enthralling and moving testimony to a Siberian native people's humor and endurance at the ecological limits of human existence.
The book presents a gallery of unforgettable personalities, including shamans, psychics, wolves, bears, dogs, Communist Party bosses, daredevil aviators, and the spirits of fires and rivers. Based on nearly two decades of fieldwork, The Reindeer People is an enthralling and moving testimony to a Siberian native people's humor and endurance at the ecological limits of human existence.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Reindeer People
- Sottotitolo: Living With Animals And Spirits in Siberia
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Piers Vitebsky
- Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Collana: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Dicembre '06
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Even (Asian people) Domestic animals Even (Asian people) Religion Even (Asian people) Social life and customs
- Pagine: 464
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0618773576
- EAN-13: 9780618773572