Piers Vitebsky
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who was Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies and Assistant Director of Research at the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge in England.
Piers Vitebsky's Published Works
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- The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia (2005) (178)
- Mapping land cover change in a reindeer herding area of the Russian Arctic using Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery and indigenous knowledge (2003) (106)
- Vulnerability of European reindeer husbandry to global change (2008) (94)
- Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India (1995) (79)
- From cosmology to environmentalism: Shamanism as local knowledge in a global setting (1995) (62)
- Sacrifice as the ideal hunt: a cosmological explanation for the origin of reindeer domestication (2015) (55)
- Loving and forgetting: moments of inarticulacy in tribal India* (2008) (24)
- Gas, environmentalism and native anxieties in the Soviet Arctic: the case of Yamal peninsula (1990) (21)
- Centralized decentralization : The ethnography of remote reindeer herders under perestroika (1990) (19)
- Is death the same everywhere? contexts of knowing and doubting (2002) (14)
- Dialogues With The Dead (1993) (13)
- What is a reindeer? Indigenous perspectives from northeast Siberia (2014) (11)
- From Materfamilias to Dinner-Lady: The Administrative Destruction of the Reindeer Herder’s Family Life (2010) (8)
- What is a Shaman? (1997) (7)
- Casting Timeshadows: Pleasure and Sadness of Moving among Nomadic Reindeer Herders in north-east Siberia (2015) (4)
- Defending the thesis on the ‘hunter's double bind’ (2015) (4)
- Reindeer herders of northern Yakutia: a report from the field (1989) (4)
- From cosmology to environmentalism (2003) (3)
- Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos (2017) (3)
- Wild Tungus and the Spirits of Places (2012) (3)
- Birth, Entity and Responsibility : The Spirit of the Sun in Sora Cosmology (1980) (2)
- Rethinking Soviet Anthropology (1989) (2)
- Velocity and Purpose among Reindeer Herders in the Verkhoyansk Mountains (2020) (2)
- The Death and Regeneration of a 'Divine King' (1985) (2)
- New offshore gas fields announced by Soviets (1990) (2)
- From parasitic feudalism to responsible hierarchy (2022) (1)
- Alarming radiation levels reported in Chukotka peninsula (1990) (1)
- Leningrad conference on coordination of Arctic research (1989) (1)
- Ethnographic researches in the North and their contribution to global anthropology : an attempt at defining the present situation (2010) (1)
- Siberian conference on the cradle of mankind (1989) (1)
- Death Isn’t What It Used to Be: (2019) (0)
- Kinship Among the Dene (1989) (0)
- Indigenous Arctic religions (2020) (0)
- POL volume 25 issue 155 Cover and Front matter (1989) (0)
- The Soviet Arctic. Pier Horensma. 1991. London and New York: Routledge. xii + 228 p, maps, hard cover. ISBN 0-415-05537-7. £45.00. (1993) (0)
- A winter hunt (2005) (0)
- Foreword (2020) (0)
- Siberian Bibliography (1992) (0)
- Iceland in Decline (1992) (0)
- Kayaks and Umiaks (1987) (0)
- Stones, Shamans and Pastors: Pagan and Baptist Temporalities of Death in Tribal India (2016) (0)
- Soviet Environmental Consciousness (1992) (0)
- Where Is the Nomadic Family? Rigid Laws and Flexible Tundra Life in North-East Siberia (2022) (0)
- Ghosts: Life and Death in North India. Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed (1996) (0)
- Singing a cosmos into being—for silent or argumentative ancestors? (2020) (0)
- Assumptions and expectations (2003) (0)
- Dealing with the Dead: Ghosts and spirits from around the world (2012) (0)
- Shifting cultivation comes to rest: changing values of land and the person in an area of Monaragala district. (1992) (0)
- Interview with Robert Paine (2004) (0)
- Dialogues with the dead : the experience of mortality and its discussion among the Sora of Central India (1982) (0)
- The Covid‐19 app and the fire spirit: Receiving messages in Britain and Siberia (2021) (0)
- Psychology and Selection (1988) (0)
- A lecture on 'Loving and Forgetting; a farewell to ancestors' by Piers Vitebsky (2008) (0)
- Herding in Perspective (1992) (0)
- Soviet Arctic Conference (1990) (0)
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