Losing the World : after the Moose have gone away
Sometimes the plans to improve people's lives end up destroying them. When the Chinese government moved the nomadic Evenki people from the forests into urban settlements and confiscated their hunting rifles, they took away their livelihood. Gu Tao's film The Last Moose of Aoluguya document...
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/227090 https://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.04.2018.38 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/227090/3/01_Sorace_Losing_the_World_2017.pdf.jpg |
Summary: | Sometimes the plans to improve people's lives end up destroying them. When the Chinese government moved the nomadic Evenki people from the forests into urban settlements and confiscated their hunting rifles, they took away their livelihood. Gu Tao's film The Last Moose of Aoluguya documents how people survive, or slowly destroy themselves, after the catastrophe of losing their world. |
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