Abstract This paper explores how disorientation and displacement in the shamanic topography of the Evenki lead to the establishment of novel relationships between humans and nonhuman beings. Examining human experiences of disorientation demonstrates how these spatial disruptions can convey geographical and sociocultural information about nonhuman ontologies and topographies. Ethnographic...
It was shortly before the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, when a young Polish woman by the name of Maria Czaplicka organized the predominantly female Yenisei Expedition. Czaplicka had been trained in anthropology at Oxford and was the author of the book Aboriginal Siberia, which summarized contemporary scholarship on the area (mostly Russian and Polish). Her book became a compendium for the...