Beyond Wild and Tame

Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Alex C. Oehler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-725-0 (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. 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	21.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Interspecies Encounters
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-725-7 / 1805397257
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-725-0 / 9781805397250
Zustand	Neuware