On the run in Siberia

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Recounts the Danish anthropologist's year living in exile in Siberia among Yukaghir hunters after fleeing from the police, who were set to arrest him because of his efforts to organize a fair-trade fur cooperative with the hunters.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willerslev, Rane, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Danish
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Willerslev, Rane, > 1971- > Travel > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Yukaghir > Hunting > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Yukaghir > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > Social life and customs.
Refugees > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > Biography.
Anthropologists > Denmark > Biography.
Sable trapping > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Fur trade > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Mafia > Russia (Federation) > Siberia.
Siberia (Russia) > Description and travel.
Siberia (Russia) > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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