An emic science of climate. Reindeer Evenki environmental knowledge and the notion of an “extreme process”

• Published in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
• Main Authors: Lavrillier, Alexandra, Gabyshev, Semen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études 2018
• Subjects: observatoire basé chez les communautés; transdisciplinarité; élevage du renne; chasse; savoir écologique traditionnel; changements climatiques; changements environnementaux; système cognitif; prédateur; community-based observatory; cognition; transdisciplinarity; reindeer herding; hunter; traditional ecological knowledge; climate change; environmental change; predators; geo; envir; Evenki; Renne; renne
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/3280

This paper was co-written by Lavrillier (anthropologist) and Gabyshev (reindeer herder and co-researcher) on the basis of their field materials, with documentation and analysis of complex traditional environmental knowledge. After discussing the methodology of a community-based transdisciplinary obs...