Author: John Peter ZikerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Kinship, Exchange and Ethnicity Among the Dolgan and Nganasan of Northern Siberia
Author: John Peter ZikerDilemmas of Diversity After the Cold War
Author: Michele R. Rivkin-FishPublisher: Woodrow Wilson Center
ISBN: 1933549920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Human Ecology
Author: Daniel G. BatesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441957014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology. Academic, political, and, indeed, public interest in the environmental sciences is on the rise. This is no doubt spurred by media coverage of climate change and global warming and attendant natural disasters such as unusual drought and flood conditions, toxic dust storms, pollution of air and water, and the like. But there is also a growing intellectual awareness of the social causes of anthropogenic environmental impacts, political vectors in determining conser- tion outcomes, and the role of local representations of ecological knowledge in resource management and sustainable yield production. This is reflected in the rapid increase of ecology courses being taught at leading universities in the fa- growing developing countries much as was the case a decade or two ago in Europe and North America. The research presented here is all taken from recent issues of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Since the journal itself is a leading forum for cont- porary research, the articles we have selected represent a cross-section of work which brings the perspectives of human ecology to bear on current problems being faced around the world. The chapters are organized in such a way to facilitate the use of this volume either to teach a course or to introduce an informed reader to the field.
Cows, Kin, and Globalization
Author: Susan Alexandra CratePublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759107403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
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.
Peoples of the Tundra
Author: John P. ZikerPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478610689
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
On ethnographic grounds alone, Zikers book is a unique and valuable contribution. Despite increased fieldwork opportunities for foreigners in the former Soviet Union in recent years, much of Russia and Siberia remains terra incognita to Western scholars, except for specialists who know the Russian literature. Zikers account of the Dolgan and Nganasan peoples of the Ust Avam community is a fascinating analysis of how people adapt their hunting, fishing, and herding not only to the demanding Arctic environment but also to enormous economic and political adversities created in the wake of the Soviet Unions collapse. In this sense, the book fills a gap in the ethnographic literature on Siberia for Western students and, at the same time, serves as a microcosm of the devastating changes affecting rural communities and indigenous peoples generally in a disintegrating former superpower: that is, increasing isolation and a shift to nonmarket survival economies.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
A Grammar of Dolgan
Author: Chris Lasse DäbritzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516425
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The book is the first corpus-based and complete description of Dolgan, a Turkic Language from the Taymyr Peninsula (Russia), analyzing its grammatical structure from a language-internal perspective. It aims at documenting the language and making it accessible for a wide range of potential users.
The Dolgan and the Nganasan of Northern Siberia
Author: John Peter ZikerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dolgans
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Ethnographies of Conservation
Author: David G. AndersonPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857456741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.