A portrait of and tribute to the Eveny nomads, with whom the anthropologist author has lived and worked over the last 20 years. Vitebsky captures the many hardships, age-old rituals, and modern challenges of life on the taiga of northeastern Siberia, where the Eveny live in symbiosis with reindeer. With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.  (SIB48, $15.95)

Kiriyama Prize