商品簡介
This is an ethnography of the indigenous Sakha people of subarctic Russia and is also written as, in the words of Crate (human ecology, George Mason U.), "an ethnography of sustainability by exploring how communities balance adaptation and resilience in the crossfire of globalizing and modernizing forces." His multi-sited analysis seeks to connect local experience with wider forces by looking at how the Sakha developed a "cows-and-kin" food production system in response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, examining Sakha responses to Soviet and post-Soviet industrial environmental degradation; and comparing the Sakha experience to Canadian indigenous experiences with diamond mining. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
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.
