Reclaiming the Forest

Åshild Kolås is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and has authored two books and numerous articles, mainly on Tibetan identity and cultural representation. She carried out fieldwork in Aoluguya in 2008 and 2009, conducted under a project on “Pastoralism in China: Policy and Practice” funded by the Research Council of Norway.

List of illustrations



Foreword

F. Georg Heyne



Acknowledgements

Map of Aoluguya

Contributors



PART I: ENCOUNTERING THE EWENKI



Introduction: Writing the ‘Reindeer Ewenki’

Åshild Kolås



Chapter 1. From Nomads to Settlers: A History of the Aoluguya Ewenki (1965–1999)

Si Qinfu



PART II: MIGRATIONS: REINDEER HERDING IN FLUX



Chapter 2. In the Forest Pastures of the Reindeer

Tang Ge



Chapter 3. Ambiguities of the Aoluguya Ewenki

Åshild Kolås



Chapter 4. The Many Faces of Nomadism among the Reindeer Ewenki: Uses of Land, Mobility and Exchange Networks

Aurore Dumont



PART III: REPRESENTATIONS: DEFINING THE REINDEER EWENKI CULTURE AND IDENTITY



Chapter 5. A Passage from Forest to State: The Aoluguya Ewenki and their Museums

Bai Ying and Zhang Rongde



Chapter 6. The Ecological Migration and Ewenki Identity

Xie Yuanyuan



Chapter 7. Tents, Taiga and Tourist Parks: Vernacular Ewenki Architecture and the State

Richard Fraser



PART IV: LOCAL VOICES



Chapter 8. Campfire

Weijia



Chapter 9. My Homeland

Gong Yu



Chapter 10. Hunting along the Bei’erci River

Gu Xinjun



Glossary

Index