Martin is known for her story Croire aux fauves (In the Eye of the Wild) in which she describes her attack by a bear.
[1] Martin joined the Gwich'in,[2] a hunter-gatherer society, in Alaska, to complete a thesis under the supervision of Philippe Descola.
[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.
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.