Leaving Footprints in the Taiga e-bog

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas BrandiA auskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. "e;Catching luck"e; is one such strategy that plays a central role in Orochen cosmology -- luck implies a vernacular theory of causality based on active interactions of humans, non-humans, material objects, and places. BrandiA auskas describes in rich details the skills, knowledge, ritual practices, storytelling, and movements that enable the Orochen to "e;catch luck"e; (or not, sometimes), to navigate times of change and upheaval.