Download Abstract: It is customary to assume that the lives of small

Abstract: It is customary to assume that the lives of small-scale hunting societies in the Arctic will be
forced into radically new strategies of adaptation as a result of global warming and the dramatic
ecological effects that it brings about. This article reveals that this is not necessarily the case.
Drawing on ethnographic data from the Yukaghirs, a small Siberian group of indigenous hunters, it is
shown that these people while having been confronted with dramatic ecological changes, this has
not led to simultaneous changes in their subsistence practice and its associated cosmological makeup. In proposing this argument, the article questions the view of much ecological anthropology,
namely that ecological pressure is the prime mover behind the production of cultural forms.