Khanty, People of the Taiga : Surviving the 20th Century
ISBN: 9781602231252
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Alaska Press
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Subjects: History; Social Science;

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty--who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution--the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world.

Andrew Wiget is professor of English and director of the New Mexico Heritage Center at New Mexico State University. Olga Balalaeva is a folklorist and specialist in Finno-Ugric studies who has been working in Siberia since 1988.

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