Gábor Sipos từ Vysoká u Příbramě, Czech Republic

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2019-04-27 01:30

Theo Dấu Chân Phật - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ajahn Sucitto

Inspired to learn something about Siberia after rewatching a favorite movie, Dersu Usala, I somewhat randomly chose this book. It turned out to be well written, with a knowing but not cynical, poetic but not effusive tone, and it contains useful maps of the various regions that comprise the chapters of the book. The title and impressive cover art are a bit misleading, however. The book really focuses on the diverse ways that the native tribes were decimated or deracinated. There is relatively little information about shamans before, during, or after the centuries of colonization. I wasn't terribly disappointed, however, as Reid obviously had to select from innumerable historical and contemporary narratives to cover her huge topic (huge in space and time), and the narratives she did choose, though often not about shamans, were well worth reading. It's interesting to compare the ways Russians and/or Soviets went about conquering natives to the ways Americans did so, and again to compare the resulting differences in outcomes for Siberian and American natives. The images of contemporary Siberian (Soviet ghost) towns are strikingly depressing. And the few paragraphs that do describe pre-conquest tribal life really give the sense of an almost unimaginably different way of viewing the world. I like The Golden Bough, too, for this reason -- both books gracefully but persistently stymie our wish to project upon ancient tribal cultures.

Người đọc Gábor Sipos từ Vysoká u Příbramě, Czech Republic

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.