Studies in Social and
Cultural Anthropology
General editors: Erich Kasten and David Koester
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Alexandra Lavrillier and
Semen Gabyshev
An
Arctic Indigenous Knowledge System
of Landscape, Climate, and Human
Interactions:
Evenki Reindeer Herders and Hunters
2017,
Fürstenberg/Havel:
Kulturstiftung Sibirien
467 pp.,
überwiegend farbig, 15,5 x
22 cm
ISBN:
978-3-942883-31-3
Euro 68;
paperback
PDF (19.1 MB)
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Co-written by an anthropologist and a reindeer herder
(BRISK project co-researcher) on the basis of their
field materials, this book offers documentation and
analysis of complex traditional environmental
knowledge. After discussing the methodology of the
Evenki community-based transdisciplinary observatory
for monitoring climate and environmental changes with
herders (2012–2016), the book reveals some of the
results of this co-production. It presents the emic
typologies and concepts the Evenki use for
understanding norms and anomalies, observing and
predicting changes, and adaptating. Conceived together
with the herders, the book’s structure combines
analytical texts (traditional in anthropology) and
other forms of presentation, such as abstract diagrams
with explanations in Evenki, Russian, and English,
diagrams on pictures, and encyclopaedic entries with
pictures and trilingual explanations from the herders.
Alexandra Lavrillier is an anthropologist and
associate professor in anthropology at CEARC
(Cultures, Environments, Arctic, Representations,
Climate) (UVSQ) of the University of Paris-Saclay.
Fluent in Evenki, she has conducted around nine
years of fieldwork on hunting, reindeer herding,
landscape management, representations of the natural
environment, adaptations brought by postsocialism,
the market economy, climate change, and shamanism
among the Evenki, Even, and Yakuts.
Semen Gabyshev is a Evenki reindeer herder and
hunter with 27 years of experience in the Amur
region and Yakutia (Russia). A native bearer of the
Evenki TEK and language, since 2012–2013 he has been
an associate member of CEARC and an indigenous
co-researcher in scientific projects (BRISK,
POLARIS, PARCS).