Nastassja Martin (born 1986 Grenoble) is a French anthropologist and writer. She specializes in the populations of the Far North
She is known for her story "Croire aux fauves" in which she describes her attack by a bear.
Life
She studied anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.[1]
She joined the Gwich'in,[2] a hunter-gatherer society, in Alaska, to complete a thesis under the supervision of Philippe Descola,
In 2016, she published Wild Souls, the story of her experience in Alaska with this population8.
In August 2015, while she was in the mountains of Kamchatka, on the borders of Siberia, to carry out an anthropological study among the Evenes, Nastassja Martin was attacked by a bear. The animal disfigured her; she lost a piece of her jaw. Months of hospitalization followed in Russia, then in Paris. From this experience, she wrote a story which was released in October 2019. Croire aux fauves recounts her encounter with the bear, her rebirth and her animist vision of the world.
In 2020, she took part in a committee against a project to extend the ski area to La Grave and the Écrins massif.
His book A l'est des rêves was published in 2022, sharing of her anthropological approach.
Works
- Les Âmes sauvages : face à l'Occident, la résistance d’un peuple d’Alaska, Paris, La Découverte, 2016. ISBN 9782072849787
- Croire aux fauves, Paris, Verticales, 2019, ISBN 9782707189578
- À l'Est des rêves, La Découverte, 2022. ISBN 9782359251241
References
- ^ "Nastassja Martin". http://las.ehess.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-18.
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- ^ Calvet, Catherine. "Nastassja Martin : «Je ne présentais pas une menace»". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-18.