Nastassja Martin

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Nastassja Martin (born 1986) is a French anthropologist and essayist. She specialises in the populations of the Far North.

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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

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]

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