Cows, Kin, and Globalization

Susan A. Crate is a writer and scholar who conducts research in cultural and political ecology, enviornmental policy, sustainable community development, and global climate change in Siberia, Russia, and the circumpolar North. She is assistant professor of human ecology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

• 1 Foreword2 Preface3 Prologue4 Chapter 1: At Home in Siberia5 Chapter 2: Viliui Historical Ecology6 Chapter 3: Cows-and-Kin: The Cultural Ecology of Post-Soviet Viliui Sakha Survival7 Chapter 4: Having and Knowing Land8 Chapter 5: An Environmental History of the Viliui9 Chapter 6: Diamond Mining and Indigenous Rights in Comparative Context: The Case of Canadian Diamonds10 Chapter 7: Investigating Viliui Sakha Sustainability11 Chapter 8: Global Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainability12 Epilogue

Through this innovative multi-sited ethnography of complex local and global indigenous sustainability, we see how under diamond mining the Viliui Sakha were transformed from their pre-Soviet subsistence strategies into the Soviet working class then to a post-Soviet household production system founded upon having and knowing land. The Viliui Sakha reemerged as victors of sustainability. This is a perceptive ethnography of sustainability that passionately advances indigenous peoples' rights to socioecological equity, cultural survival, and political devolution.