Donatas Brandisauskas is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is Honorary Research Fellow at Aberdeen University and Associate Researcher at University of Versailles (CEARC) in France.

• List of FiguresPrefaceA Note on TransliterationIntroduction: Luck, Spirits and PlacesChapter 1. People I lived With: Community, Subsistence and SkillsChapter 2. Luck, spirits and dominationChapter 3. Sharing, Trust and AccumulationChapter 4."Relying On My Own Two": Walking and LuckChapter 5. Living Places: Tracking Animals and CampsChapter 6. Mastery of Time: Weather and OpportunitiesChapter 7. Herding, Hunting and AmbiguityChapter 8. Rock Art, Shamans and HealingChapter 9. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and LuckGlossary of Orochen and Russian TermsBibliography

"[The author's] personal insights are weighed alongside observations made in previous studies of Siberian hunters, recent as well as decades old. The resulting synthesis offers a compelling ethnographic analysis that touches on many topics of current interest to anthropologists, from cultural renewal in Indigenous communities to the challenges posed by environmental and economic changes sweeping the world today. - Recommended. " Choice

Donatas Brandisauskas is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is Honorary Research Fellow at Aberdeen University and Associate Researcher at University of Versailles (CEARC) in France.

• List of FiguresPrefaceA Note on TransliterationIntroduction: Luck, Spirits and PlacesChapter 1. People I lived With: Community, Subsistence and SkillsChapter 2. Luck, spirits and dominationChapter 3. Sharing, Trust and AccumulationChapter 4."Relying On My Own Two": Walking and LuckChapter 5. Living Places: Tracking Animals and CampsChapter 6. Mastery of Time: Weather and OpportunitiesChapter 7. Herding, Hunting and AmbiguityChapter 8. Rock Art, Shamans and HealingChapter 9. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and LuckGlossary of Orochen and Russian TermsBibliography

"[The author's] personal insights are weighed alongside observations made in previous studies of Siberian hunters, recent as well as decades old. The resulting synthesis offers a compelling ethnographic analysis that touches on many topics of current interest to anthropologists, from cultural renewal in Indigenous communities to the challenges posed by environmental and economic changes sweeping the world today. - Recommended. " Choice

Donatas Brandisauskas is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is Honorary Research Fellow at Aberdeen University and Associate Researcher at University of Versailles (CEARC) in France.

• List of FiguresPrefaceA Note on TransliterationIntroduction: Luck, Spirits and PlacesChapter 1. People I lived With: Community, Subsistence and SkillsChapter 2. Luck, spirits and dominationChapter 3. Sharing, Trust and AccumulationChapter 4."Relying On My Own Two": Walking and LuckChapter 5. Living Places: Tracking Animals and CampsChapter 6. Mastery of Time: Weather and OpportunitiesChapter 7. Herding, Hunting and AmbiguityChapter 8. Rock Art, Shamans and HealingChapter 9. Conclusions: Ambivalence, Reciprocity and LuckGlossary of Orochen and Russian TermsBibliography

"[The author's] personal insights are weighed alongside observations made in previous studies of Siberian hunters, recent as well as decades old. The resulting synthesis offers a compelling ethnographic analysis that touches on many topics of current interest to anthropologists, from cultural renewal in Indigenous communities to the challenges posed by environmental and economic changes sweeping the world today. - Recommended. " Choice