Different Risks, Different Biographies: The Roles of Reversibility for Buryats and Circularity for Evenki People

• Main Authors: Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; Spanish
• Published: FQS 2010
• Subjects: risk; biography; Southern Siberia; social anthropology; cattle breeders; hunter-gatherers; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Evenki; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/8e3c36770b6848d58574a787e0f4f0d0

The article is based on fieldwork conducted in Southern Siberia among Buryat and Evenki people in 2006. By comparing the strategies of risk management persons with articulated biographies (Buryat shaman and Evenki businessman) use, we investigated the general patterns of ways Evenki and Buryat peopl...