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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Reindeer People: Living With Animals and Spirits in Siberiadi Piers Vitebsky
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Nomads A fascinating story of the Eveny people of Siberia; I heard an interview with the author on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" and had to go out and read the book. Vitebsky recounts several of his visits to the region and his understanding of the reindeer-herding culture and some of their spiritual practices (as well as their history through the Soviet and immediate post-Soviet periods). A remarkable insight into the life and culture of the Eveny, Vitebsky is not only a scholar but also a gifted writer, who is able to vividly bring to life the people, the land and animals he met during various trips to the Russian Far East. Not only does he write eminently on the Eveny, he also describes in detail the anthropological history of human interaction with reindeer. Overall, a fascinating book which is highly recommended. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A voyage of discovery into the life of a remote aboriginal community in the Siberian Arctic, where the reindeer has been a part of daily life since Palaeolithic times. The reindeer, along with the dog, was probably the first species to be drawn into a close relationship with man. This book, by an eminent British anthropologist, is the beautifully written story of how that relationship works and of the intimacy between the nomadic reindeer people and the landscape they inhabit. What to the Western eye looks like a vast, uninhabited Arctic wilderness is in fact filled with animals, humans and spirits -- and the memory-traces of their interactions down the ages. to these distant regions of the Siberian taiga. Living and travelling with the reindeer people over a period of a dozen years, Piers Vitebsky has seen how, first, Communism and collectivization threatened the way of life of the nomadic tribesmen, and then the marketplace continued to transform their existence. Through all the changes of the late 20th century the reindeer has retained its central place in the physical and spiritual life of the people (Siberia is considered to be the original heartland of shamanism.) The book is also a celebration of human love at an elemental level. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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