Skins of desire: poetry and identity in Koriak women's gift exchange
Koriak women in the northern Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far Bast offer gifts of handworked reindeer fur and leather to entice men to become their sweethearts. Examining two love stories involving reindeer herding Koriak women and men, I explore the meaning of the gift as an embodied metaphor...
| Published in: | American Ethnologist |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2000
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.52 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fae.2000.27.1.52 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.52 |