Sentient Ecology
Abstract THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP of people to land has always been a central concern for Evenkis when hunting, travelling, or even living the stationary lifestyle of the villagers. In times past, before the redistributive state took responsibility for providing food and shelter for the citizens with...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2000
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233855.003.0006 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52585902/isbn-9780198233855-book-part-6.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP of people to land has always been a central concern for Evenkis when hunting, travelling, or even living the stationary lifestyle of the villagers. In times past, before the redistributive state took responsibility for providing food and shelter for the citizens within its reach, Evenkis maintained an intense and constant relationship with the land both to subsist but also to gain technical and spiritual knowledge. The provision of central state subsidies through a complex and bureaucratized division of labour has displaced most Khantaika Evenkis from a day-to-day relationship with the land, but this has not made the land any less important in their lives. Apart from receiving salaries which are in some way underwritten by activities on the territories of the state farm, most Evenkis place the land prominently in discussions over their future when the talk turns to the centrally imposed policy known as privatization [privatizatsiia]. With more anxiety, but with less preciseness, there is also a growing worry over the chaotic movement of wild deer herds due to the airborne pollution from Noril’sk. |
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