Tundra Passages

Tundra Passages
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 027104358X
ISBN-13 : 9780271043586
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Book Synopsis Tundra Passages by : Petra Rethmann

Download or read book Tundra Passages written by Petra Rethmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1990s study on how the indigenous people in the northern Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East experienced, interpreted, and struggled with the changing living conditions of post-Soviet Russia. The book describes how Koriak women and men actively negotiated the manifold historical and social process, from tsardom, to Soviet state to democracy, by protesting, accommodating and reinterpreting the factors by which their conditions were made and remade. Special emphasis is on how the women in this culture are adjusting and combating their oppressed position in society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR


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