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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797917503321

Autore

Xie Yuanyuan (Sociologist)

Titolo

Ecological migrants : the relocation of China's Ewenki reindeer herders / / Yuanyuan Xie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-633-5

Edizione

[English-language edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Asian anthropologies  Ecological migrants

Disciplina

305.894/1

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - China - Inner Mongolia

Evenki (Asian people) - China - Inner Mongolia - Migrations

Evenki (Asian people) - China - Inner Mongolia - Economic conditions - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ecological Migrants; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 Living with Ewenki Hunters; Chapter 2 The Culture of Reindeer Ewenki and Historical Settlements; Chapter 3 Ecological Migration Path; Chapter 4 Post-migration Issues; Chapter 5 Aftermath and Future; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reindeer-herding Ewenki hunters have lived in the forests of China’s Greater Khingan Range for over three hundred years. They have sustained their livelihoods by collecting plants and herbs, hunting animals and herding reindeer. This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought first by China’s modernization and development policies and more recently by ecological policies that aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. Xie reflects on modernization and urbanization in China through this study of ecological migration policies and their effects on relocated Aoluguya Ewenki hunters.