2022/146: In the Eye of the Wild — Nastassja Martin (translated by Sophie R Lewis)

2022/146: In the Eye of the Wild — Nastassja Martin (translated by Sophie R Lewis)

Leaving the therapy center, I raise an exhausted face to the white sun. Did I need that? Once again I will have to look deeply into myself. I think of the bear. If he’s alive, at least he is living his bear life free from attacks like this, symbolic and actual, without paying this price. [loc. 600]

In 2015 Nastassja Martin, a French anthropologist who was studying the indigenous Evens in Siberia, was attacked by a bear. ( Read more... )