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.
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Leaving Footprints in the Taiga
Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
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Leaving Footprints in the Taiga
Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Leaving Footprints in the Taiga
- Contents
- Tables, Maps and Figures
- Preface
- A Note on Transliteration
- Introduction — Luck, Spirits and Places
- Chapter One — People I Lived With: Community, Subsistence and Skills
- Chapter Two — Luck, Spirits and Domination
- Chapter Three — Sharing, Trust and Accumulation
- Chapter Four — 'Relying on My Own Two': Walking and Luck
- Chapter Five — Living Places: Tracking Animals and Camps
- Chapter Six — Mastery of Time: Weather and Opportunities
- Chapter Seven — Herding, Hunting and Ambiguity
- Chapter Eight — Rock Art, Shamans and Healing
- Chapter Nine — Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck
- Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
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