Reindeer People : Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
Author(s): Piers Vitebsky
The reindeer, along with the dog, was probably the first species to be drawn into a close relationship with man. This book, by an eminent British anthropologist, is the beautifully written story of how that relationship works and of the intimacy between the nomadic reindeer people and the landscape they inhabit. What to the Western eye looks like a vast, uninhabited Arctic wilderness is in fact filled with animals, humans and spirits
Product Information
Piers Vitebsky is a noted anthropologist and deputy director (and Head of Social Sciences and Russian Studies) at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. An acknowledged expert on Shamanism, he has spent much of the last decade and more living amongst the Eveny people in Siberia. His previous books include Dialogues with the Dead (Cambridge) and The Shaman (Macmillan).
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : HarperPerennial
- : 0.337
- : 07 November 2005
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Piers Vitebsky
- : Paperback
- : 305.8941057
- : 320
- : 16 b/w plates, (25 b/w integrated + maps)