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John McCannon, A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation Kathleen Osgood

Julian Agyeman and Yelena Ogneva-Himmerlberger, eds., Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union Anna Bara

Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts I: Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality. Alexandra Cotofana and James M. Nyce, eds. (Stuttgart; ibidem Press, 2017), 200 pages. ISBN: 9783838210391. Paperback, $45.00.

Litsom k moriu: Pamiati Liudmily Bogoslovskoi. Igor Krupnik, ed. (Moscow: Moskva, 2016), 647 pages. ISBN 978-5600013650.

Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, Otto von Kotzebue, Adelbert von Chamisso: Forschungsreisen auf Kamtschatka: Auszüge aus den Werken by Marie-Theres Federhofer and Diana Ordubadi, eds. Review by Otto Habeck

Frozen Assets: British Mining, Exploration, and Geopolitics on Spitsbergen, 1904–53 by Frigga Kruse Review by Anna Bara

In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-Hand English-Language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613–1917) by Anthony Cross Review by Oxana Zemtsova

Books Available for Review

Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia Craig Campbell (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 268 pp., 19 illustrations, $27.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-8166-8106-8.

Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific’s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741–1867 Ryan Tucker Jones (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), xi + 296 pp. $58.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-19-934341-6.

The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism Douglas Rogers (London: Cornell University Press, 2015), 370 pp., maps, photographs, drawings. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-8014-5658-9.

Books Available for Review Bille, Franck. Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015, 255 pp. [Cloth $57] ISBN: 978-0-8248-3982-6

Missonova, L. I. Lexicon of the Uilta as a Historical and Ethnographic Source. Moscow: Science, 2013, 334 pp., 24 colored figures and maps. [Cloth, no price available] ISBN 978-5-02038-033-2

Stépanoff, Charles, Carole Ferret, Gaëlle Lacaze, and Julien Thorez. Nomadismes d’Asie centrale et septentrionale [Nomadism in Central and North Asia]. Paris: Armand Colin, 2013, 288 pp. [Cloth €35.00] ISBN 978-2-20027-537-2

The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia Erika Monahan (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016), xiv + 424 pp., 17 illustrations, charts, maps. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8014-5407.

Becoming Inummarik: Men’s Lives in an Inuit Community Peter Collings (London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), 406 pp. [Paperback, $32.95] ISBN 978-0-7735-4313-3

Bridging Divides: Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi Indra Overland and Mikkel Berg-Nordlie (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015), 162 pp., 11 figures and tables. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978-1-78238-919-4

Conversations with Power: Soviet and Post-Soviet Developments in the Reindeer Husbandry Part of the Kola Peninsula Yulian Konstantinov Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology, Number 56 (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2015), 417 pp. No price (paper). ISBN 978-91-554-9150-5

Reconsidering Inner Asia: Shared Spaces, Shifting Identities Suchandana Chatterjee (Calcutta: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Manohar, 2014), 222 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-93-5098-032-3.

Geoarchaeology and Radiocarbon Chronology of Stone Age Northeast Asia Vladimir V. Pitul’ko and Elena Yu. Pavlova, translated by Richard L. Bland (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016), 256 pp., 54 b/w illus., 26 tables. $60.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-62349-330-1

Sustaining Russia’s Arctic Cities: Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change Edited by Robert W. Orttung (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 274 pp., index, figures, maps, tables. $130.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-78533-315-6

Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity Franck Billé (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015), 272 pp. $80.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8248-3982-6

Shadow Networks: Border Economies, Informal Markets and Organized Crime in the Russian Far East Tobias Holzlehner (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2015), 240 pp., charts, figures, maps, references, index. €29.90 (paperback). ISBN: 978-3-643-90651-9

Lebenswelten Sibiriens: Aus Natur und Geschichte des Jennissei-Stromlandes Carsten Goehrke (Zurich: Chronos, 2016), 736 pp. €71.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-0340-1348-2

Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia. Tricia Starks. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018), xiii + 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-2205-9.

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century. John R. Bockstoce. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018), 327 pp., index, illustrations, maps, $40.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-300-22179-4.

Delo—Tabak: Polveka fabriki “Iava” glazami ee rukovoditelia. Leonid Sinel’nikov. (Moscow: Delo, 2017), 511 pp., ISBN: 978-5-7749-1260-5.

Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond. David G. Anderson, Dmitry V. Arzyutov and Sergei S. Alymov, eds. (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), 425 pp., https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0150, ISBN 9781783745449.

A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule Jonathan Schlesinger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), 288 pp. ISBN: 9780804799966

Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin’s Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström, eds. (Stockholm: Elanders, 2017), 283 pp., paperback $27.00. ISBN: 978-91-7601-777-7.

Kosmologiia i praktika sibirskogo shamanizma Elena V. Nam (Tomsk: Tomskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, 2017), 296 pp. ISBN: 978-5-7511-2521-9.

Kul’tura i resursy. Opyt etnologicheskogo obsledovaniia sovremennogo polozheniia narodov Severnogo Sakhalina Dmitrii Funk, ed. (Moscow: “Demos,” 2015), 272 pp. ISBN 978-5-9904710-6-1.

Maritime Hunting Culture of Chukotka: Traditions and Modern Practices Igor Krupnik and Rachel Mason, eds. (Anchorage, AK: National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program, 2016), 343 pp. ISBN: 9780990725251. Litsom k moriu: Pamiati Liudmily Bogoslovskoi Igor Krupnik, ed. (Moscow: Moskva, 2016), 647 pp. ISBN 9785600013650.

T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East Sharon Hudgins (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2018), 448 pp. ISBN: 9781574417142.

Bij de Joekagieren. Het oudste toendravolk van Noord-Oost Siberië / Life with the Yukaghir: Northeast Siberia’s Oldest Tundra People Cecilia Odé (Lias, Uitgeverij: Verschijningsjass, 2018), 240 pp., €29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-90-8803-099-4.