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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Central Themes: Local Cultures/Global Forces | |
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| On the Use of "Indigenous" | |
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| A Note on the Transliteration | |
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| Map-out of the Chapters | |
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| At Home in Siberia | |
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| Biogeography of the Viliui | |
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| The Pre-glacial and Glacial Periods in the Sakha Republic | |
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| Geology of Sakha and the Viliui | |
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| Climate and Hydrology on the Viliui | |
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| Hydrology on the Viliui | |
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| The Boreal Ecosystem: Floral and Faunal Adaptations | |
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| Fauna | |
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| Human Adaptations to Extreme Northern Environments | |
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| Sakha Subsistence Adaptations to the Subarctic | |
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| Viliui Historical Ecology | |
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| Southern Origins | |
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| Viliui Sakha Origins and Local History | |
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| Local History: The Elgeeii Area | |
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| Invasion from the West | |
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| Local Impacts of Russian Colonization in Viliui Sakha Settlements | |
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| The Soviet Period: From Lenin's Socialism to Stalin's Legacy | |
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| The Soviet Period for Viliui Sakha | |
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| Cows-and-Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Post-Soviet Viliui Sakha Survival | |
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| Viliui Sakha Villages on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Moving through the Seasons: Village and Household Life | |
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| Having What It Takes: The Demands of Keeping Cows in the Subarctic | |
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| Year-Round Activities | |
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| Seasonal Cow-Care Activities | |
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| Haying: Foraging for the Quintessential Crop | |
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| Getting to Cows-and-Kin | |
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| Inter-Household Cows-and-Kin Dependencies | |
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| The Centrality of Kin | |
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| Cows-and-Kin in Case Studies | |
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| The Theoretical Context of Cows-and-Kin | |
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| Contemplating Cows-and-Kin | |
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| Having and Knowing Land | |
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| Having Land | |
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| The Great Divide | |
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| The Three Modes in Sum | |
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| The Question of Ancestral Right to Land | |
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| The Second Village Factor: An Argument to Return to Smaller Settlements? | |
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| Final Thoughts on Having Land | |
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| Knowing Land | |
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| The Elders and Their Life Stories | |
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| Elder Narratives and the Loss of Local History | |
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| An Environmental History of the Viliui | |
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| Glasnost on the Viliui | |
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| Soviet Industrialization | |
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| The Post-Soviet Period: Reconciling the Past | |
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| Impacts of Industrialization on the Viliui | |
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| Official Efforts to Reconcile the Environmental Issues of the Viliui Regions | |
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| The Birth and Demise of the Viliui Committee | |
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| Environmental Victories in Post-Soviet Russia: A Recipe for Success? | |
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| Imagining a Future of Environmental Justice on the Viliui | |
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| Diamond Mining and Indigenous Rights in Comparative Context: The Case of Canadian Diamonds | |
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| Stereotypes and Definitions of the North | |
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| A History of Northern Exploration and the Fur Trades of Russia and Canada | |
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| The Case of Diamonds in Arctic Canada | |
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| The Cultural and Historical Landscape of Canadian Land Claims | |
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| Diamonds and Developments in the North West Territories | |
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| The Pluses and Minuses of the Canadian Arctic Diamond Economy | |
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| Charting a Course to Sustainability for Indigenous Peoples and Mines | |
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| Implications for Viliui Sakha | |
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| Investigating Viliui Sakha Sustainability | |
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| Defining Sustainability on the Local Level | |
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| Defining Sustainability in Focus Groups | |
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| Defining Sustainability in Interviews | |
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| Bringing Findings into a Larger Discussion | |
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| Global Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability | |
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| Mining in Historical Perspective | |
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| Mining in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| The Local Impacts of Twenty-First-Century Mining | |
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| The Ok Tedi Case | |
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| Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Revisiting the Central Themes | |
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| Toward an Ethnography of Sustainability | |
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| Sustainability Research in Anthropology | |
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| Sustainability and Indigenous Peoples | |
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| Indigenous Sustainability in the Arctic Context | |
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| Indigenous Sustainability in the Russian North | |
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| The Dialogue of Sustainability | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |