Leaving footprints in the taiga : luck, spirits and ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen reindeer herders and hunters
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Leaving footprints in the taiga : luck, spirits and ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen reindeer herders and hunters
（Studies in the circumpolar north, v. 1）
Berghahn, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index
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Description
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandisauskas 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. Brandisauskas 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.
Table of Contents
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
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