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An anthropologist's personal account of his time living with and studying the indigenous Eveny people of northeastern Siberia whose lives and livelihoods are interdependent with the wild reindeer herds they live among. Vitebsky's stays began in the mid-to-late 1980's--he was the first Westerner to live among them since the 1930's. Because of that, he was in a unique position to see both the effect that Soviet collectivization had on the traditional practices of the nomadic Eveny--which broke up
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