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“In the 1980s one would see rows of silent commuters in the crowded undergrounds of Moscow and Leningrad, their heads buried in serious books covered in newspaper to protect the binding (and, in those open but still uncertain times, perhaps to hide the title: in 1988 I was roughly arrested on the Leningrad metro by young Communist
vigilantes who noticed that I was reading a book on shamanism).”
― The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
vigilantes who noticed that I was reading a book on shamanism).”
― The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
“I was appalled when I realized how quickly they went through sugar, and understood their many missing teeth (Tolya calls it 'white death', the white man's revenge for the black death, which had come to Europe in the Middle Ages from Siberia).”
― The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
― The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
“In the 1980s reindeer meat still made a substantial profit. Every other activity, even when the real cost of anything at all was masked by the Soviet tangle of cross-subsidies and phantom accounting, ran at a severe loss. Though this was to change beyond all recognition in the 1990s, reindeer herders in the 1980s were fairly well paid and well provisioned, and their exotic holidays were provided free.”
― The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
― The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
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