Faces of the wolf : managing the human, non-human boundary in Mongolia /

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Author / Creator:	Charlier, Bernard, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : color illustrations, color map
Language:	English
Series:	Inner Asia book series ; 10 Inner Asia book series ; 10.
Subject:	Human-animal relationships -- Mongolia. Wolves -- Mongolia -- Psychological aspects. Human ecology -- Mongolia. Herders -- Mongolia -- Psychology. Human-animal relationships. Human ecology. Manners and customs. Wolves -- Psychological aspects. Mongolia -- Social life and customs. Mongolia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241542

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ISBN:	9789004271135 9004271139 9789004271128 9004271120
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Charlier, Bernard. Faces of the wolf. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] 9789004271128
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004271135

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