Contents
List of Illustrations ........................................... 7
Preface ........................................................ 11
Notes on Russian Transliteration ............................... 15
1 Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia: An Introduction .. 17
Peter Jordan
Part 1. Landscape, Communication and Obligation
2 Seeing with Others' Eyes: Hunting and 'Idle Talk' in the
Landscape of the Siberian Iukagir ........................... 49
Kane Willerslev
3 Shamanistic Revival in a Post-Socialist Landscape: Luck
and Ritual among Zabaikal'e Orochen-Evenkis ................. 71
David G. Anderson
4 Landscapes in Motion: Opening Pathways in Kamchatkan
Hunting and Herding Rituals ................................. 97
Patrick Plattet
5 Material and Linguistic Perspectives on Sel'kup Sacred
Places ..................................................... 117
Alexandra A. Maloney
Part 2. Landscape, Dwelling and Practice
6 Dwelling in the Landscape Among the Reindeer Herding
Chukchis of Chukotka ....................................... 135
Virginie Vaté
7 'Marking'the Land: Sacrifices, Cemeteries and Sacred
Places among the Iamal Nenetses ............................ 161
Sven Haakanson Jr. and Peter Jordan
8 Landscape Perception and Sacred Places amongst the
Vasiugan Khants ............................................ 179
Andrei Filtchenko
9 Perceptions of Landscape among the Lake Essei Iakut:
Narrative, Memory and Knowledge ............................ 199
Tatiana Argounova-Low
10 The Creation and Persistence of Cultural Landscapes
among the Siberian Evenkis: Two Conceptions of 'Sacred'
Space ...................................................... 215
Alexandra Lavrillier
Part 3. Landscapes in Long-term Transformation
11 The Mansi Sacred Landscape in Long-Term Historical
Perspective ................................................ 235
Elena Glavatskaia
12 Sacred Places and Masters of Hunting Luck in the Forest
Worlds of the Udege People of the Russian Far East ......... 257
Shiro Sasaki
13 Komi Reindeer Herders: Syncretic and Pragmatic Notions of
Being in the Tundra ........................................ 279
Joachim Otto Habeck
14 Siberian Landscapes in Ket Traditional Culture ............. 297
Edward J. Vajda
15 Sacred Sites, Settlements and Place-Names: Ancient Saami
Landscapes in Northern Coastal Sweden ...................... 315
Noel D. Broadbent and Britta Wennstedt Edvinger
About the Editor and Contributors ............................. 339
Contact Details for Authors ................................... 343
Index ......................................................... 345
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