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Khanty, People of the Taiga: Surviving the 20th Century
by Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva
University of Alaska Press, 2011
Paper: 978-1-60223-124-5 | eISBN: 978-1-60223-125-2
Library of Congress Classification DK759.K3W54 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.89451

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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