Nastassja Martin
Nastassja Martin (born 1986) is a French anthropologist and essayist. She specialises in the populations of the Far North.
Martin is known for her story Croire aux fauves (In the Eye of the Wild) in which she describes her attack by a bear.
Life
[edit]Martin was born in Grenoble. She studied anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.[1]
Martin joined the Gwich'in,[2] a hunter-gatherer society, in Alaska, to complete a thesis under the supervision of Philippe Descola.[3]
In 2016, she published Wild Souls, the story of her experience in Alaska with this population.[4]
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.[5][6][7]
In 2020, she took part in a committee against a project to extend the ski area to La Grave and the Massif des Écrins.[8]
Her book À l'est des rêves was published in 2022, sharing her anthropological approach.[9]
Works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Nastassja Martin". las.ehess.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Calvet, Catherine. "Nastassja Martin : "Je ne présentais pas une menace"". Libération (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "" Croire aux fauves ", de Nastassja Martin : l'étreinte de l'ours". Le Monde.fr (in French). 7 November 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Descamps, Philippe (1 August 2016). "Les âmes sauvages. Face à l'Occident, la résistance d'un peuple d'Alaska". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Nastassja Martin: "Il faut repenser le vivant qui est lui-même en train de se repenser"". France Culture (in French). 18 November 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Nastassja Martin, la femme qui a failli se faire dévorer par un ours". L'Obs (in French). 17 December 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin review – life after being 'kissed' by a bear". the Guardian. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Le tournant écopolitique de la pensée française". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 August 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Nastassja Martin : " Faire sortir l'anthropologie des cénacles fermés "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 16 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "'In the Eye of the Wild,' a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack". 24 November 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Learning to Love the Bear That Attacked You". The New Yorker. 3 December 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 18 October 2022.[dead link]
- ^ "Anthropologist encounters bear — but this is not your usual bear story". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
