Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA April 25, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0199250820
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0199250820
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 14.9 ounces
Product Description
This is a first-hand account of a reindeer-herding collective in the remote Taimyr peninsula of Siberia. The author gives an intimate description of the day-to-day lives of a little-known group of Evenkis as they face both economic and ecological challenges. His study addresses questions of identity, nationalism, and ecological theory, as well as mapping the changes caused in the region by the formation of and the recent break-up of the Soviet Union.
About The Author
David G. Anderson is a Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Aberdeen.
Reader ReviewsAnderson synthesizes first-hand obsevations with archival material and other published sources (mostly in Russian) to present a subtle picture of ethnic identity and daily life among Siberian native peoples. Ethnic identity is a hot topic in Siberian anthropology (for both Russian and English-language anthropologists), but most people seem to deploy a rather simplistic theory of culture in their analysis. Anderson's book is dense in parts, but well worth the effort. It also includes plenty of vivid description of life on the land. Many of his observations jive with my own in Kamchatka (several thousand miles away) and those of other colleauges who have done research in Siberia. If you read just one book on Siberian native people, this should be it. Full disclosure: David is a colleauge of mine, but you can see my review published in American Anthropologist 104(1):340-41, which I wrote before joining this department at the University of Aberdeen.
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