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Arctic pastoralist Sakha : ethnography of evolution and microadaptation in Siberia / by Hiroki Takakura.
Penn Museum Library DK771.Y2 T3613 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Takakura, Hiroki, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Modernity and identity in Asia series
- Standardized Title:
- Kyokuhoku no bokuchikumin Saha. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral systems.
- Yakut (Turkic people)--Social life and customs.
- Yakut (Turkic people).
- Sakha (Russia)--Rural conditions.
- Sakha (Russia).
- Yakut (Turkic people)--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Pastoral systems--Russia (Federation)--Sakha.
- Rural conditions.
- Russia (Federation)--Sakha.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Balwyn North, Victoria, Australia : Trans Pacific Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Arctic pastoral ism and microadaptation 1
- 2 Who are the Sakha? 24
- 3 Rural lite and the subsistence complex 40
- 4 Living with ice 56
- 5 Meadows and lakes in the taiga 74
- 6 Haymaking and spirits 93
- 7 Arctic horse grazing 113
- 8 Entrustment of horses 138
- 9 Adaptation of animal husbandry to a market economy 166
- 10 Conclusion: viewpoints of evolution and adaptation 203.
- Notes:
- "First published in Japanese in 2012 by Shōwadō as Kyokuhoku no bokuchikumin Saha"--Title-page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-246) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781920901493
- 1920901493
- OCLC:
- 903596939
- Publisher Number:
- 99963651521
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