Khanty, People of the Taiga

Know about the book -

Khanty, People of the Taiga is written by Andrew Wiget and published by University of Alaska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1602231257 (ISBN 10) and 9781602231252 (ISBN 13).

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the indigenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty—who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolution—the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world.