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.

Biography

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, and she lost a piece of her jaw. Months of hospitalization followed in Russia, then in Paris. Based on this experience, she wrote a story, Croire aux fauves, which was released in October 2019. It recounts her encounter with the bear, her recovery 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]

Since then, she has published several other books, such as À l'est des rêves, which came out in 2022, and which details her anthropological approach. ^[9]

Bibliography

• 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
  • In the Eye of the Wild translator Sophie R. Lewis. New York Review Books, 2021. ISBN   978-1-68137-585-4 ^{[10] [11] [12] [13]}
• À l'Est des rêves, La Découverte, 2022. ISBN   9782359251241
• Les sources de glace, Paris, Paulsen, 2025. ISBN 978235221-5547
• L'amont des sources, Paris, Paulsen, 2025. ISBN 978235221-5998

References

1. "Nastassja Martin". las.ehess.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
2. Calvet, Catherine. "Nastassja Martin : "Je ne présentais pas une menace"". Libération (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
3. "" Croire aux fauves ", de Nastassja Martin : l'étreinte de l'ours". Le Monde.fr (in French). 7 November 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
4. 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.
5. "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.
6. "Nastassja Martin, la femme qui a failli se faire dévorer par un ours". L'Obs (in French). 17 December 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
7. "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.
8. "Le tournant écopolitique de la pensée française". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2 August 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
9. "Nastassja Martin : " Faire sortir l'anthropologie des cénacles fermés "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 16 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
10. "'In the Eye of the Wild,' a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack". 24 November 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
11. "Learning to Love the Bear That Attacked You". The New Yorker. 3 December 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
12. "In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
13. "Anthropologist encounters bear — but this is not your usual bear story". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 18 October 2022.