Once upon the permafrost : knowing culture and climate change in Siberia / Susan Alexandra Crate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crate, Susan Alexandra, author.

Series:

Critical green engagements

Critical green engagements: investigating the green economy and its alternatives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yakut (Turkic people)--Russia (Federation)--Sakha.

Yakut (Turkic people).

Climatic changes--Russia (Federation)--Sakha.

Climatic changes.

Russia (Federation)--Sakha.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about "knowing" a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change. Through careful integration of contemporary narratives, on-site observations, and document analysis, Susan Alexandra Crate shows how local understandings of change and the vernacular knowledge systems they are founded on provide critical information for interdisciplinary collaboration and effective policy prescriptions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "Knowing" Permafrost

2. Alaas: Sakha's Home on Permafrost

3. Alaas and Change: A Tale of Two Villages

4. Community-Level Understandings: From Climate Change to the Complexity of Change and Back

5. Windows into the Complexity of Change: Individual Life Histories

6. Gone the Alaas: Knowing Permafrost and Alaas in the 21st Century

7. We All Live on Permafrost: Sakha's Predicament in the Greater World Context of "Knowing" Climate Change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816541553

0816541558

9780816541546

081654154X

OCLC:

1245472120