What can we do to survive the current political and climatic crises and deal with our brutal colonial past, the repercussions of which still echo through to today?
In Kamchatka, in the Russian Far East, a group of indigenous people have chosen to return to the wilderness to reconnect with their ancestors and regain their autonomy. Six years after the release of Les âmes sauvages, Nastassja Martin continues to tell us stories of the "ecological disaster" in her detailed, emotional, and powerfully descriptive style. Her book explores how the indigenous peoples of the Great North have responded to the destruction of their world by our modern intensive production-driven society.
Nastassja Martin is an anthropologist specializing in Arctic populations. She is the author of Âmes sauvages. Face à l'Occident, la résistance d'un peuple d'Alaska (La Découverte, 2016), which received the Prix Louis Castex from the Académie Française, and Croire aux fauves (Verticales, 2019), which received the François-Sommer, Mac-Orlan, Joseph-Kessel, and Livre du Réel awards.