It is particularly good on the disconnection between Evenki clan order and Russia's attempts to institutionalize iasak. |
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The fireball would have stretched high into the sky, and the local Evenki tribesman must have thought that the world was coming to an end. |
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Chapters one and eight frame the project, which is essentially a close examination of how Soviet power both made and unmade state subjects among the Evenki. |
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Here again, the participating Taimyrian languages Forest Enets, Tundra Enets, Nganasan, Dolgan and Evenki behave similarly, but this isogloss stretches further south and east. |
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