Culture Contact in Evenki Land: A Cybernetic Anthropology of the Baikal Region

by Istvan Santha, Tatiana Safonova, Istvan Santha

Evenki are modern hunter-gatherers who live in Central and Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation. They are known to scholarship for their animistic worldview, and because the word 'shaman' has been borrowed from their language. Despite such recognition contemporary Evenki everyday life rarely appears as a subject for anthropological monographs, mainly because access to Evenki communities for the purpose of extended fieldwork has only recently become...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004233067
• ISBN13: 9789004233065
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"