Reclaiming the Forest

Ashild Kolas is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and has authored two books and numerous articles, mainly on Tibetan identity and cultural representation. She carried out fieldwork in Aoluguya in 2008 and 2009. Her work on the Aoluguya reindeer herders was conducted under a project on "Pastoralism in China: Policy and Practice" funded by the Research Council of Norway. Yuanyuan Xie is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University. She carried out a year-long fieldwork in Aoluguya in 2003-2004, just after the resettlement, and is currently working on a research project about the Aologuya Ewenki funded by the Chinese National Social Science Foundation.

• List of illustrations Foreword F. Georg Heyne Acknowledgements Map of Aoluguya Contributors PART I: ENCOUNTERING THE EWENKI Introduction: Writing the 'Reindeer Ewenki' Ashild Kolas Chapter 1. From Nomads to Settlers: A History of the Aoluguya Ewenki (1965 - 1999) Si Qinfu PART II: MIGRATIONS: REINDEER HERDING IN FLUX Chapter 2. In the Forest Pastures of the Reindeer Tang Ge Chapter 3. Ambiguities of the Aoluguya Ewenki Ashild Kolas Chapter 4. The Many Faces of Nomadism among the Reindeer Ewenki: Uses of Land, Mobility and Exchange Networks Aurore Dumont PART III: REPRESENTATIONS: DEFINING THE REINDEER EWENKI CULTURE AND IDENTITY Chapter 5. A Passage from Forest to State: The Aoluguya Ewenki and their Museums Bai Ying and Zhang Rongde Chapter 6. The Ecological Migration and Ewenki Identity Xie Yuanyuan Chapter 7. Tents, Taiga and Tourist Parks: Vernacular Ewenki Architecture and the State Richard Fraser PART IV: LOCAL VOICES Chapter 8. Campfire Weijia Chapter 9. My Homeland Gong Yu Chapter 10. Hunting along the Bei'erci River Gu Xinjun Glossary Index

"This is an exciting, finely crafted edited collection which focuses upon a group of Evenki who are poorly known in the English language literature... The volume is evenly balanced with both academic and literary contributions by local Evenki authors." * David Anderson, University of Aberdeen "This book is a valuable contribution to the anthropology of northern Eurasian peoples. With contributions by Western and Chinese anthropologists along with contributions by Ewenki reindeer herders themselves, the book is a comprehensive and innovative presentation of the history and lifeways of the Ewenki of Aoluguya." * John Ziker, Boise State University