Space marked out with livestock

• Published in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
• Main Author: Ferret, Carole
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: Animal husbandry; livestock; Pastoralism; Space; Measure of distance; Left and right; Cardinal points; Central Asia; Inner Asia; Kazakh; Mongol; Khakas; Kyrgyz; Yakut; Sakha; Tuva; Siberia; Nomadism; Laterality; Espace; Elevage; Pastoralisme; Orientation; Nomadisme; Bétail; droite et gauche; Mesure de distance; Points cardinaux; Latéralité; [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; Gauche
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01614163; https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.988

International audience Searching for traces of pastoral activity in Turkic-Mongol space categories, we discover that measurement of distance is rather relative, whereas orientation is rather absolute. The norms governing orientation are so strict that inversion of positions is linked to death. À la...