Title: Landscape and culture in Northern Eurasia /
Authors: Jordan, Peter, 1949-
Publisher: Left Coast Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Ethnology Russia (Federation) Siberia; Hunting and gathering societies Russia (Federation) Siberia.; Landscape assessment Russia (Federation) Siberia.; Material culture Russia (Federation) Siberia.; Siberia (Russia) Social life and customs.
Contents: Landscape and culture in northern Eurasia: an introduction / Peter Jordan -- Seeing with others' eyes: hunting and 'idle talk' in the landscape of the Siberian Iukagir / Rane Willerslev -- Shamanistic revival in a post-socialist landscape: luck and ritual among Zabaikal'e Orochen-Evenkis / David G. Anderson -- Landscapes in motion: opening pathways in Kamchatkan hunting and herding rituals / Patrick Plattet -- Material and linguistic perspectives on Sel'kup sacred places / Alexandra A. Maloney -- Dwelling in the landscape among the reindeer herding Chukchis of Chukotka / Virginie Vaté -- 'Marking' the land: sacrifices, cemeteries and sacred places among the Iamal Nenetses / Sven Haakanson Jr. and Peter Jordan -- Landscape perception and sacred places amongst the Vasiugan Khants / Andrei Filtchenko -- Perceptions of landscape among the Lake Essei Iakut: narrative, memory and knowledge / Tatiana Argounova-Low -- The creation and persistence of cultural landscapes among the Siberian Evenkis: two conceptions of 'sacred' space / Alexandra Lavrillier -- The Mansi sacred landscape in long-term historical perspective / Elena Glavatskaia -- Sacred places and masters of hunting luck in the forest worlds of the Udege People of the Russian Far East / Shiro Saski -- Komi reindeer herders: syncretic and pragmatic notions of being in the tundra / Joachim Otto Habeck -- Siberian landscapes in Ket traditional culture /Edward J. Vajda -- Sacred sites, settlements and place-names: ancient Saami landscapes in northern coastal Sweden / Noel D. Broadbent and Britta Wennstedt Edvinger.