People on the move
The use of space by Northern Baikal Evenkis in the context of socio-economic changes
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This book is about the mobility of Baikal Evenki hunters, reindeer herders and fishermen and their engagement with living in the world through the structures they build and use in the context of numerous development projects and innovations. This work suggests a shift from the static perspective where local people’s spatial practices were analysed through the prism of their relationship to a particular stationary structure to a dynamic one where a structure is interpreted as embedded in a complex network of movements connecting a number of locations. It sees movements as a creative process which serves as an expression of local people’s own ideas and views. This is a monograph about people for whom to move means to live. This book might be useful for a wide range of specialists interested in mobility studies, anthropology of infrastructure, Evenki (Tungus) ethnography and history of northern Baikal region. SPb.
