The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders

This paper is about human-animal spiritual relations among Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders of Kalar district (Zabaikal region) in Siberia. Based on narratives describing the practice of bringing wild animals into human places, this anthropological study examines the network of relations...

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Published in:Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
Main Author: Simonova, Veronika V.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2018
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10.4000/emscat.3505 2023-05-15T16:09:07+02:00 The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders Simonova, Veronika V. 2018-12-20 https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.3505 http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/3505 en eng Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines urn:doi:10.4000/emscat.3505 doi:10.4000/emscat.3505 http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/3505 other Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines Évenk Russie élevage du renne chasse animaux sauvage récit relations humains-animaux Evenki Russia reindeer herding hunting wild animals narrative human-animal interactions anthro-se hist Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.3505 2023-01-22T16:48:23Z This paper is about human-animal spiritual relations among Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders of Kalar district (Zabaikal region) in Siberia. Based on narratives describing the practice of bringing wild animals into human places, this anthropological study examines the network of relations between human and non-human actors in an attempt to answer the following questions: why do Evenki hunters bring wild animals into their camps? Why are they so interested in observing the ways in which animals expose themselves and become a part of a human world? Why do “human nature” (chelovecheskaia priroda) (as it is called by our informants) and wild animals share certain similarities in local spiritual beliefs? By creating a dialogue between ethnographic examples and the theories of mimesis and perspectivism, this paper shows that this complex subject should be approached in terms of a “magic of contact”. This is also true of local perednik beliefs, where the human and animal worlds coincide: in such beliefs, human nature (chelovecheskaia priroda) is held to be partially constituted by an animal spirit. The analysis of data as well as writing up was sponsored by RSF grant 14-18-02785. Cet article porte sur les relations spirituelles entre humains et animaux chez les Évenks chasseurs et éleveurs de rennes d’Amudisy, dans le district de Kalar (région de Zaibaikal) en Sibérie. Basé sur l’ethnographie de récits et de souvenirs recueillis auprès des éleveurs de rennes de cette région, présentant comment des animaux sauvages ont été rapportés sur les lieux d’habitation des humains, cet article examine un réseau de relations entre des acteurs humains et non-humains, et tente de répondre aux questions suivantes : Pourquoi les chasseurs évenks ont-ils besoin de rapporter un animal sauvage sur leurs campements ? Pourquoi sont-ils tant enclins à observer la façon dont un animal sauvage se dévoile et devient une partie du monde humain ? Pourquoi, ce que les informateurs appellent « la nature des humains » (chelovecheskaia ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Evenki renne Siberia Unknown Evenki ENVELOPE(132.817,132.817,59.683,59.683) Renne ENVELOPE(9.698,9.698,63.505,63.505) Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines 49
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Russie
élevage du renne
chasse
animaux
sauvage
récit
relations humains-animaux
Evenki
Russia
reindeer herding
hunting
wild
animals
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human-animal interactions
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hist
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Russie
élevage du renne
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animaux
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Russia
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human-animal interactions
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Simonova, Veronika V.
The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders
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Russie
élevage du renne
chasse
animaux
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Russia
reindeer herding
hunting
wild
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narrative
human-animal interactions
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description This paper is about human-animal spiritual relations among Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders of Kalar district (Zabaikal region) in Siberia. Based on narratives describing the practice of bringing wild animals into human places, this anthropological study examines the network of relations between human and non-human actors in an attempt to answer the following questions: why do Evenki hunters bring wild animals into their camps? Why are they so interested in observing the ways in which animals expose themselves and become a part of a human world? Why do “human nature” (chelovecheskaia priroda) (as it is called by our informants) and wild animals share certain similarities in local spiritual beliefs? By creating a dialogue between ethnographic examples and the theories of mimesis and perspectivism, this paper shows that this complex subject should be approached in terms of a “magic of contact”. This is also true of local perednik beliefs, where the human and animal worlds coincide: in such beliefs, human nature (chelovecheskaia priroda) is held to be partially constituted by an animal spirit. The analysis of data as well as writing up was sponsored by RSF grant 14-18-02785. Cet article porte sur les relations spirituelles entre humains et animaux chez les Évenks chasseurs et éleveurs de rennes d’Amudisy, dans le district de Kalar (région de Zaibaikal) en Sibérie. Basé sur l’ethnographie de récits et de souvenirs recueillis auprès des éleveurs de rennes de cette région, présentant comment des animaux sauvages ont été rapportés sur les lieux d’habitation des humains, cet article examine un réseau de relations entre des acteurs humains et non-humains, et tente de répondre aux questions suivantes : Pourquoi les chasseurs évenks ont-ils besoin de rapporter un animal sauvage sur leurs campements ? Pourquoi sont-ils tant enclins à observer la façon dont un animal sauvage se dévoile et devient une partie du monde humain ? Pourquoi, ce que les informateurs appellent « la nature des humains » (chelovecheskaia ...
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