Intimate relations : reflections on history, power, and gender in Koriak women's lives in northern Kamchatka

• Main Author: Rethmann, Petra.
• Other Authors: Galaty, John (advisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1996
• Subjects: Koryak women; Koryaks > Social conditions; Feminist anthropology; Kamchatka Peninsula; Ossora; Tymlat; Kamchatka; Koryak; Koryaks; Tundra
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40433

This thesis deals with issues of gender, power, and history in Koriak women's lives in northern Kamchatka. The Koriak represent one of the indigenous populations of Russia's north. They migrate with the reindeer over vast, rugged tundra territory, and live by the products the animals and t...