Cows, Kin, and Globalization
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.
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1. At Home in Siberia
Chapter 2. Viliui Historical Ecology
Chapter 3. Cows-and-Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Post-Soviet Viliui Sakha Survival
Chapter 4. Having and Knowing Land
Chapter 5. An Environmental History of the Viliui
Chapter 6. Diamond Mining and Indigenous Rights in Comparative Context: The Case of Canadian Diamonds
Chapter 7. Investigating Viliui Sakha Sustainability
Chapter 8. Global Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability
Epilogue
Susan A. Crate is a writer and scholar who conducts research in cultural and political ecology, environmental policy, sustainable community development, and global climate change in Siberia, Russia, and the circumpolar North. She is an assistant professor of human ecology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
| Pm Supplier | Ingram Publisher Services UK (NBNi) |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | AltaMira Press |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 0759107408 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9780759107403 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2006-10-19 |
| Pm Width | 160 |
| Pm Height | 19 |
| Pm Author | Crate,Susan Alexandra |
| Pm Longness | 229 |
- An Ethnography of Sustainability
- Author: Crate,Susan Alexandra
- Page Count: 304
- Publication Date: 2006-10-19
Cows, Kin, and Globalization
- An Ethnography of Sustainability
- Author: Crate,Susan Alexandra
- Page Count: 304
- Publication Date: 2006-10-19
