The Reindeer People
by Piers Vitebsky

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In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual sustenance, enabling them to survive in the world's coldest inhabited region, the Siberian taiga, where winter ice freezes six feet thick and the temperature drops to ninety-six degrees below zero.

The book presents a gallery of unforgettable personalities, including shamans, psychics, wolves, bears, dogs, Communist Party bosses, daredevil aviators, and the spirits of fires and rivers. Based on nearly two decades of fieldwork, The Reindeer People is an enthralling and moving testimony to a Siberian native people's humor and endurance at the ecological limits of human existence.

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ISBN-10:	0618773576
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780618773572
Author:	Piers Vitebsky
Publisher:	Mariner Books New York
Publication Date:	2006
Pages:	496 pp
Size/Dimensions:	6 x 9
Binding:	Paperback