Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East

by Petra Rethmann

Koriak have been described as a nomadic people, migrating with the reindeer through rugged terrain. Their autonomy and mobility are salient cultural features that ethnographers and state administrators have found equally fascinating and menacing.

Tundra Passages describes how this indigenous people in the Russian Far East have experienced, interpreted, and struggled with the changing conditions of life on the periphery of post-Soviet Russia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027102058X
• ISBN13: 9780271020587
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"