Faces of the Wolf

Managing the Human, Non-Human Boundary in Mongolia
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-27112-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Inner Asia Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charlier, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gesellschaft & Tiere

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Charlier, Ph.D (2011, University of Cambridge), Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, is researcher and Editor of Social Compass. In 2011, he studied at the Collège de France the relationships between the perception of nature and figurative practices in Mongolia.