Full Description
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.
Contents
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
