Embracing Landscape - Living With Reindeer and Hunting Among Spirits in South Siberia

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals. It focuses on the role of the spirited landscape which embraces all living creatures and acts as a unifying concept at the center of the human and non-human relations.

About the author

Selcen Küçüküstel is a social anthropologist who works as a post doctorate researcher at the University of Carlos III Madrid. She also works as a freelance photojournalist for different geography and culture magazines, covering anthropological stories from different parts of the world.

Summary

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Selcen Kucukustel, Selcen Küçüküstel, Küçüküstel Selcen
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781800730625
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-062-5
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Interspecies Encounters
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Animals & society, Social and cultural anthropology, Animals and society, Siberia, Anthropology (General); Environmental Studies (General)