Cows, Kin, and Globalization
An Ethnography of Sustainability
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2006
304 pages
978-0-7591-1406-7 (ISBN)
Description
Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is directly affected by the forces of modernization and globalization. She details the severe environmental and historical factors that continue to challenge their survival, and shows how the multi-million dollar diamond industry, in part run by ethnic Sakha, raises issues of ethnic solidarity and indigenous rights as well as environmental impact. Her new book addresses key topics of interest to both economic and environmental anthropology, and to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, and post-Soviet and environmental issues.
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English
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CA
United States
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978-0-7591-1406-7 (9780759114067)
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Susan A. Crate is a writer and scholar who conducts research in cultural and political ecology, enviornmental policy, sustainable community development, and global climate change in Siberia, Russia, and the circumpolar North. She is assistant professor of human ecology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Content
1 Foreword
2 Preface
3 Prologue
4 Chapter 1: At Home in Siberia
5 Chapter 2: Viliui Historical Ecology
6 Chapter 3: Cows-and-Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Post-Soviet Viliui Sakha Survival
7 Chapter 4: Having and Knowing Land
8 Chapter 5: An Environmental History of the Viliui
9 Chapter 6: Diamond Mining and Indigenous Rights in Comparative Context: The Case of Canadian Diamonds
10 Chapter 7: Investigating Viliui Sakha Sustainability
11 Chapter 8: Global Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability
12 Epilogue
2 Preface
3 Prologue
4 Chapter 1: At Home in Siberia
5 Chapter 2: Viliui Historical Ecology
6 Chapter 3: Cows-and-Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Post-Soviet Viliui Sakha Survival
7 Chapter 4: Having and Knowing Land
8 Chapter 5: An Environmental History of the Viliui
9 Chapter 6: Diamond Mining and Indigenous Rights in Comparative Context: The Case of Canadian Diamonds
10 Chapter 7: Investigating Viliui Sakha Sustainability
11 Chapter 8: Global Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability
12 Epilogue
