Ecological Migrants: The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders

by Yuanyuan Xie

Book Overview

Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China's Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China's modernization and development policies and more recently by ecological policies that aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789207908
• ISBN13: 9781789207903
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"