ABSTRACT
This chapter examines traditional' Khant perceptions of landscape from two perspectives, focusing in particular on the veneration of sacred sites. Initially the chapter draws on the published ethnographic literature to provide a general analysis of Vasiugan Khant cultural landscapes. Then it presents the results of the author's own recent fieldwork among the few elderly Khants who remain active hunters and fishermen out on the land. The Vasiugan Khants' traditional procurement activities focused on hunting for meat and hunting for furs which were used to trade and pay fur tax. The chapter explores how Khant cultural perceptions and cosmological beliefs are manifest physically, that is, how Khant spirituality, economic practices, settlement patterns and social organisation are manifest in the creation of cultural landscapes, and in particular, how they are exemplified by activities at sacred sites.
