Faces of the wolf : : managing the human, non-human boundary in Mongolia / / by Bernard Charlier.

• Superior document: Inner Asia Book Series ; Volume 10
• VerfasserIn: Charlier, Bernard,
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Wolf at the Margins -- From Victim to Giver: Interpreting Wolf Attacks and Revealing a Morality -- Hunting the Wolf for ‘Wind Horses’ and Revealing the Individual -- “Everything and Its Contrary”: Between Morality and Ethics, Equilibrium and Excess, Humanity and Animality, What Is a Wolf? -- Extending Bodies: Concealing and Revealing Persons through Wolf’s Ankle Bones and Other Objects Kept Near the Body -- Between Surfaces and Depths, Actions and Transformations, Contours and Tensions: No Homeland for the Wolf -- Concluding Remarks: Between Differences, Encompassments and Repetitions: “Who Holds the Strings of the Wind?” -- Bibliography -- Index.