Book contents
- Tunguska
- Studies in Environment and History
- Tunguska
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources, Abbreviations, Terminology, and Transliteration
- 1 Landscape of Mystery
- 2 Destruction from the Sky
- 3 Reaching the Inaccessible Terrain
- 4 Poking and Prodding for Answers
- 5 Cosmic Fantasies
- 6 Volunteers Take Charge
- 7 Life in Tunguska
- 8 Protecting the Taiga
- 9 Views from Afar
- 10 Siberian and Planetary Futures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Environment and History
7 - Life in Tunguska
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
- Tunguska
- Studies in Environment and History
- Tunguska
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources, Abbreviations, Terminology, and Transliteration
- 1 Landscape of Mystery
- 2 Destruction from the Sky
- 3 Reaching the Inaccessible Terrain
- 4 Poking and Prodding for Answers
- 5 Cosmic Fantasies
- 6 Volunteers Take Charge
- 7 Life in Tunguska
- 8 Protecting the Taiga
- 9 Views from Afar
- 10 Siberian and Planetary Futures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Environment and History
Summary
This chapter concentrates on the environmental engagement of the people who went on the voluntary expeditions. Focusing on the diverse cultural products of participants and the rich experiences that many had in the field, it shows how the Tunguska site helped create an autonomous sphere within late Soviet society. It was also a place where people developed a distinctive form of ecological sensibility. Voluntary researchers felt that time in the taiga led to deeper connections among people and with the rest of the natural world. Both the totality of social life during fieldwork and the evolution of the Complex Amateur Expedition (KSE) as an organization feature here as well.
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- TunguskaA Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy, pp. 135 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022