ISBN:
9781785332395
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
305 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Studies in the Circumpolar North 1
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandišauskas 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. Brandišauskas 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.
Description / 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 -- Bibliography --
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