Khanty, People of the Taiga: Surviving the 20th Century

Khanty, People of the Taiga: Surviving the 20th Century
ISBN-10
1602231257
ISBN-13
9781602231252
Category
Social Science
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2011-05-15
Publisher
University of Alaska Press
Authors
Andrew Wiget, Olga Balalaeva

Description

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty—who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution—the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world.

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