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Tundra Passages

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Description for Tundra Passages paperback. Series: Post-Communist Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.

Koriak have been described as a nomadic people, migrating with the reindeer through rugged terrain. Their autonomy and mobility are salient cultural features that ethnographers and state administrators have found equally fascinating and menacing.

Tundra Passages describes how this indigenous people in the Russian Far East have experienced, interpreted, and struggled with the changing conditions of life on the periphery of post-Soviet Russia.

Rethmann portrays the lives of Koriak women in the locales of Tymlat and Ossora in northern Kamchatka, within a wider framework of sexuality, state power, and marginalization, which she sees as central to the Koriak experience of ... Read more

With the demise of the Soviet Union, scholars have begun an active discussion of the political processes that affect marginalized and indigenous peoples in Russia. This work contributes to this discussion by revealing the tensions and potentially contradictory strategies of indigenous people within a world shaken by change, uncertainty, and disorder.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Post-Communist Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271020587
SKU
V9780271020587
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Petra Rethmann
Petra Rethmann is assistant professor of anthropology at McMaster University. Her work has been published in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropologica, and The Anthropology of East-Europe Review.

Reviews for Tundra Passages
“Petra Rethmann’s evocative Tundra Passages breaks completely new ground in ethnography from the Russian Far East. Drawing on conversations and experiences shared with Koriak women living on northeastern Kamchatka peninsula, she conveys the human dignity and creative energy that persist in the midst of social suffering following the breakdown of the Soviet empire. Rethmann demonstrates how historical conditions and regional ... Read more

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