Beyond Wild and Tame

Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Alex C. Oehler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-678-4 (ISBN)

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Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Interspecies Encounters
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-678-2 / 1789206782
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-678-4 / 9781789206784
Zustand	Neuware