Cows, Kin, and Globalization

Susan Alexandra Crate

ISBN 10: 0759107408 / ISBN 13: 9780759107403

Published by AltaMira Press, US, 2006

About this Item

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is directly affected by the forces of modernization and globalization. She details the severe environmental and historical factors that continue to challenge their survival, and shows how the multi-million dollar diamond industry, in part run by ethnic Sakha, raises issues of ethnic solidarity and indigenous rights as well as environmental impact. Her new book addresses key topics of interest to both economic and environmental anthropology, and to practitioners interested in sustainable rural development, globalization, indigenous rights in Eurasia, and post-Soviet and environmental issues.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cows, Kin, and Globalization
• Publisher: AltaMira Press, US
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759107408
• ISBN 13: 9780759107403
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 608 grams

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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.