Aside from from bringing an important and ill-understood contemporary hunter-gatherer-fisher culture to the fore, Jordan's book offers new and exciting insights into how people perceive and give meaning to the natural landscape and their place within it.

Oxbow Book News

A valuable contribution to the study of hunter-gatherer culture and survival.

from the Foreword by Robert Layton, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

Peter Jordan's book explores the complex symbolism of Siberian Khanty ritual landscapes and material culture. It offers fresh insights into the ways in which small-scale hunting and gathering communities inhabit what we might otherwise assume to be unaltered natural terrain. The ethnography presented in this book should inspire fresh considerations about the past and invite a welcome change from the bleak abstraction that can make the interpretation of much of earlier prehistory so dull. This book deserves to have considerable influence, and we must be grateful to the author for writing it.

from the Foreword by Richard Bradley, Department of Archaeology, Reading University

The book is a superb achivement, and should become essential reading for students of mind and culture alike.

Anthropos

The first detailed and authoritative study of Khanty material culture to appear in English... photos of Khanty people, objects, and locations enhance the clearly written and well-organized text, helping to make this book a useful resource for both the ethnologically curious and the professional anthropologist or historian.

E. J. Vajda, Western Washington University, Choice Reviews

Peter Jordan significantly enriches the enthnographic literature on the Khanty of Western Siberia in this ambitious monograph.

Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute