Piers Vitebsky on 'The Reindeer People'

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Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny — also known as the "Reindeer People of Siberia." He tells Steve Paulson they keep herds of reindeer for meat, but also have personal, consecrated reindeer animal doubles, which they believe will die for them. Vitebsky's book is "The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia."