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This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.
Peter Jordan is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen .
Part 1 Foreword: Landscape AnthropologyPart 2 Foreword: Landscape Archaeology and Ethnographic AnalogyPart 3 PrefacePart 4 Chapter One: Anthropology, Hunter-Gatherers, Social TheoryPart 5 Chapter Two: Material Culture and LandscapePart 6 Chapter Three: Locating the Siberian Khanty in Time, Space and Culture ContactPart 7 Chapter Four: Entering into Ethnography: Malyi Iugan Khanty Society and EconomyPart 8 Chapter Five: The Role of Animals in Routine and Ritual PracticePart 9 Chapter Six: Sacred Places in the LandscapePart 10 Chapter Seven: Enculturation of Place: Settlements of the Sacred, the Living and the DeadPart 11 Chapter Eight: Enculturation of Space: Landscape, Tenure and TerritorialityPart 12 Chapter Nine: Conclusions: A Landscape Anthropology of the Siberian KhantyPart 13 ReferencesPart 14 Index
Aside from from bringing an important and ill-understood contemporary hunter-gatherer-fisher culture to the fore, Jordan's book offers new and exciting insights into how people perceive and give meaning to the natural landscape and their place within it.