In search of reindeer : herding and hunting in taïga among the Yakutian Eveny

• Main Author: Bureau, Nicolas
• Other Authors: Paris, EHESS, Descola, Philippe, Stépanoff, Charles
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Anthropologie; Relations homme-Animal; Pastoralisme du renne; Évènes; Iakoutie; Sibérie; Anthropology; Human-Animal relations; Reindeer pastoralism; Eveny; Yakoutia; Siberia; demo; hist; Renne; reindeer husbandry; Yakutia; renne
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2021EHES0073/document

This thesis proposes to examine reindeer husbandry as practised by the Eveny of Yakutia (Russian Federation), in the way it conditions and responds to the relations that the herders maintain with their animals and their environment. Can this pastoralism be reduced to a way of life or a means of meat...