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Contents

List of Figures
Preface
A Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Luck, Spirits and Places

Chapter 1. People I lived With: Community, Subsistence and Skills
Chapter 2. Luck, spirits and domination
Chapter 3. Sharing, Trust and Accumulation
Chapter 4.‘Relying On My Own Two’: Walking and Luck
Chapter 5. Living Places: Tracking Animals and Camps
Chapter 6. Mastery of Time: Weather and Opportunities
Chapter 7. Herding, Hunting and Ambiguity
Chapter 8. Rock Art, Shamans and Healing
Chapter 9. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and Luck

Glossary of Orochen and Russian Terms    
Bibliography

Leaving Footprints in the Taiga

Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters

Donatas BrandiĊĦauskas

305 pages, 32 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-238-8 Hb Published (October 2016)

eISBN 978-1-78533-239-5 eBook