Nastassja Martin

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]

• 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 978-2-35221-554-7
• L'amont des sources, Paris, Paulsen, 2025. ISBN 978-2-35221-599-8