Beyond Wild and Tame

Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-678-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Interspecies Encounters

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. Following herder-hunters of the Eastern Saian Mountains in southern Siberia, the author examines how Soiot and Tofa households embrace unpredictability, recognize sentience, and encourage autonomy in all their relations with animals, spirits, and land features. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oehler, Alex C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gesellschaft & Tiere
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration and Translation

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Mirrored Homes

Chapter 2. Sacred Enfolding

Chapter 3. Dreaming of Deer

Chapter 4. Khainak between Worlds

Chapter 5. In the Society of Horses

Chapter 6. Reading Wolves

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oehler, Alex C.
Alex C. Oehler is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains: Ecology at the Russia-Mongolia Border (Lexington Books) and was a member of the research team of the Arctic Domus project (2012-2016) at the University of Aberdeen.