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A dream in polar fog kindle edition by rytkheu, yuri, chavasse, ilona yazhbin. Only after the canadian sailor john maclennans hands are amputated by the shaman kelena does he begin to see the chukchi people as anything more than savages. Community, self, and the making of culture in russia and beyond aimar ventsel. A dream in polar fog is at once a crosscultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the chukchi people, and a politically and emotionally charged arctic adventure story. Oksana dobzhanskaia, shamanskaia muzyka samodiiskikh narodov krasnoiarskogo kraia jenanne ferguson. Each of their people carries a seed of suspicion toward those not of their own tribe. Its themes are grand, elemental, and simple, comprehensible in the junior high school manner of discussing literature man v. The chukchi bible is a collection of the myths and tales of yuri rytkheu s own shaman father.
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