{"product_id":"once-upon-the-permafrost-knowing-culture-and-climate-change-in-siberia-paperback","title":"Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Alexandra Crate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about \"knowing\" a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author, anthropologist Susan Alexandra Crate, has spent three decades working with Sakha, the Turkic-speaking horse and cattle agropastoralists of northeastern Siberia, Russia. Crate reveals Sakha's essential relationship with alaas, the foundational permafrost ecosystem of both their subsistence and cultural identity. Sakha know alaas via an Indigenous knowledge system imbued with spiritual qualities. This counters the scientific definition of alaas as geophysical phenomena of limited range. Climate change now threatens alaas due to thawing permafrost, which, entangled with the rural changes of economic globalization, youth out-migration, and language loss, make prescient the issues of ethnic sovereignty and cultural survival. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through careful integration of contemporary narratives, on-site observations, and document analysis, Crate argues that local understandings of change and the vernacular knowledge systems they are founded on provide critical information for interdisciplinary collaboration and effective policy prescriptions. Furthermore, she makes her message relevant to a wider audience by clarifying linkages to the global permafrost system found in her comparative research in Mongolia, Arctic Canada, Kiribati, Peru, and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. This reveals how permafrost provides one of the main structural foundations for Arctic ecosystems, which, in turn, work with the planet's other ecosystems to maintain planetary balance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Metaphorically speaking, we all live on permafrost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Alexandra Crate is a professor of anthropology at George Mason University. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160908632199,"sku":"9780816541546","price":54.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7cb413b8584f85aa1327d89f0b5054a6.webp?v=1733276723","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/once-upon-the-permafrost-knowing-culture-and-climate-change-in-siberia-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}