Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (Globalization and the Environment)

Crate, Susan

ISBN 10: 0759107408 / ISBN 13: 9780759107403

Published by AltaMira Press, 2006

About this Item

USED book in ACCEPTABLE condition. Cover and pages are in tact but may show creases, tears, water damage, handwriting, underlining, or highlighting. Supplemental items such as access codes and CDs not guaranteed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (Globalization and the Environment)
• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759107408
• ISBN 13: 9780759107403
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, describing the local and global forces of modernization that continue to challenge their survival, and will be of interest to environmental and economic anthropologists, as well as to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, and postSoviet Russia.

About the Author

Susan A. Crate is a writer and scholar who conducts research in cultural and political ecology, enviornmental policy, sustainable community development, and global climate change in Siberia, Russia, and the circumpolar North. She is assistant professor of human ecology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.