Donatas Brandišauskas, Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Enacted and Emplaced Power and Luck among Orochen-Evenki of the Zabaikal region in Eastern Siberia

• Published in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2011
• Subjects: anthro-se; hist; Evenki; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/1941

My dissertation is an ethnographic study of a group of Orochen-Evenki hunters and reindeer herders inhabiting the northern taiga of the Zabaikal region of Eastern Siberia. The study is the result of 15 months of fieldwork conducted in Zabaikal County as well as in Buriatiia in 2004-2005. I investigated how the Orochen-Evenki organize their subsistence activities in a post-Soviet environment of a shortage of and competition for resources. I focus on the ways small Orochen communities have adap.