Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North by Yuri Slezkine

Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North

Yuri Slezkine

448 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"And, sovereign, having captured a shaman in battle, we asked him: what kind of man are you and do you have kinsmen? And he said: I am the best man of the Shoromboiskii clan and I have four sons. And so we kept him as hostage." For over five hundr...

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