Faces of the wolf : : managing the human, non-human boundary in Mongolia / / by Bernard Charlier.
In his study of the human, non-human relationships in Mongolia, Bernard Charlier explores the role of the wolf in the ways nomadic herders relate to their natural environment and to themselves. The wolf, as the enemy of the herds and a prestigious prey, is at the core of two technical relationships,...
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| Superior document: | Inner Asia Book Series ; Volume 10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inner Asia book series ;
Volume 10. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | In his study of the human, non-human relationships in Mongolia, Bernard Charlier explores the role of the wolf in the ways nomadic herders relate to their natural environment and to themselves. The wolf, as the enemy of the herds and a prestigious prey, is at the core of two technical relationships, herding and hunting, endowed with particular cosmological ideas. The study of these relationships casts a new light on the ways herders perceive and relate to domestic and wild animals. It convincingly undermines any attempt to consider humans and non-humans as entities belonging a priori to autonomous spheres of existence, which would reify the nature-society boundary into a phenomenal order of things and so justify the identity of western epistemology. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004271139 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Bernard Charlier. |