Susan Alexandra Crate

Cows, Kin, and Globalization

An Ethnography of Sustainability

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization that continue to challenge their survival, and will be of interest to environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, and post-Soviet Russia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780759107403
• ISBN-10: 0759107408
• Artikelnr.: 21857479

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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