Material Culture and Sacred Landscape: The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty

by Peter Jordan

This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759102767
• ISBN13: 9780759102767
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"