In the Eye of the Wild Olga Cafiero Arianne Des Rochers

Arianne Des Rochers

Patricia Belli

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In the Eye of the Wild Olga Cafiero Arianne Des RochersTranslated from the French by Sophie R. Lewis In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martins near fatal run in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martins professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent