Le sauvage et le domestique dans la métaphore équestre du chamane iakoute
The ethnography of the Yakuts, breeders of horses and cows in North-eastern Siberia, shows a complex system of comparison between humans and animals. This is largely based on a connection with the horse. This animal provides a figure that cross-cuts numerous categories, and thus serves as an identif...
| Published in: | Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | French |
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Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études
2010
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.1606 http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/1606 |
| Summary: | The ethnography of the Yakuts, breeders of horses and cows in North-eastern Siberia, shows a complex system of comparison between humans and animals. This is largely based on a connection with the horse. This animal provides a figure that cross-cuts numerous categories, and thus serves as an identifier for different ages and genders. The horse can be said to exist at the border between the wild and domestic spheres, as can be seen clearly in an examination of the shaman's special relationship with animals of the taiga. L’ethnographie des Iakoutes, éleveurs de chevaux et de vaches au nord-est de la Sibérie, témoigne d’un système complexe de mise en parallèle de la communauté humaine et des espèces animales, en grande partie basé sur un rapprochement de l'homme avec le cheval. Cet animal constitue une figure transversale, support identificatoire pour divers âges et genres. Il se situe à la frontière entre le monde sauvage et la sphère domestique, comme le montre l'analyse de la figure du chamane, qui entretient une relation particulière avec les animaux de la taïga. |
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