Arctic Mirrors
Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Yuri Slezkine
ISBN: | 9781501703300 |
Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Published: | 4 February, 2016 |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Arctic Mirrors
Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
Yuri Slezkine
For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. 'They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests,' reported a fifteenth-century tale. 'They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people,' complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. 'Their actions are exceedingly rude. They do not take off their hats and do not bow to each other,' huffed an eighteenth-century scholar. They are 'children of nat
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