Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia

by Susan Alexandra Crate

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.

The author, anthropologist Susan Alexandra Crate, has spent three decades working with Sakha, the Turkic-speaking horse and cattle agropastoralists of northeastern Siberia, Russia. Crate reveals Sakha's essential relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816541558
• ISBN13: 9780816541553
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 360 Pages