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On the Run in Siberia

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ISBN-10: 0816676275

ISBN-13: 9780816676279

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rane Willerslev, Coilin OhAiseadha

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If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost.The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest inhabited region in the world. Winter temperatures plummet to a bitter 97 degrees below zero, and beneath the permafrost lie the fossilized remains of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and other ice age giants. For the Yukaghir, an indigenous people of the taiga, hunting sable is both an economic necessity and a spiritual experience—where trusting dreams and omens is as necessary as following animal…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Rane Willerslev is professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. His primary field of research is hunting and spiritual knowledge among Siberiarsquo;s indigenous peoples. He is the author ofSoul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs.Coiliacute;n Oacute;hAiseadha is a freelance translator and professional storyteller with a long-standing interest in wilderness survival skills.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Glossary
Gallery of Characters
One Last, Feeble Attempt
The Fur Project
Shalugin, Leader of the Yukaghirs
A Post-Soviet Nightmare
Sable Furs for Sale
On the Run in the Wilderness
Out of Range
Soft Gold
Starvation and Desperation
In the Yukaghirs' Camp
A Long-Awaited Friend
Back to the Village
The Curse
Land of Shadows
Screwed
The Way Back
A Leap in Time
Appendixes: Surviving In Siberia
Using the Leghold Trap
Yukaghir Idols
Netting Fish in Siberia
Finding Your Way in the Taiga
How to Track and Shoot a Moose
Notes