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

International audience 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 th...

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Published in:Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
Main Author: Simonova, Veronika V.
Other Authors: European University at Saint Petersburg, Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2018
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Online Access:https://hal.uvsq.fr/hal-04437785
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spelling ftuniparissaclay:oai:HAL:hal-04437785v1 2024-09-15T18:05:19+00:00 The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders Le sauvage à domicile et la magie du contact. Histoires à propos d’animaux sauvages et d’esprits chez les chasseurs et les éleveurs de rennes évenks de Amudisy Simonova, Veronika V. European University at Saint Petersburg Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2018-12-20 https://hal.uvsq.fr/hal-04437785 https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.3505 en eng HAL CCSD Centre d'Etudes Mongoles & Sibériennes / École Pratique des Hautes Études info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4000/emscat.3505 hal-04437785 https://hal.uvsq.fr/hal-04437785 doi:10.4000/emscat.3505 ISSN: 0766-5075 EISSN: 2101-0013 Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines https://hal.uvsq.fr/hal-04437785 Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2018, 49, ⟨10.4000/emscat.3505⟩ Evenki Russia reindeer herding hunting wild animals narrative human-animal interactions Évenk Russie élevage du renne chasse animaux sauvage récit relations humains-animaux [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftuniparissaclay https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.3505 2024-08-30T01:48:46Z International audience 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 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Evenki renne Siberia Archives ouvertes de Paris-Saclay Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines 49
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topic Evenki
Russia
reindeer herding
hunting
wild
animals
narrative
human-animal interactions
Évenk
Russie
élevage du renne
chasse
animaux
sauvage
récit
relations humains-animaux
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
spellingShingle Evenki
Russia
reindeer herding
hunting
wild
animals
narrative
human-animal interactions
Évenk
Russie
élevage du renne
chasse
animaux
sauvage
récit
relations humains-animaux
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
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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human-animal interactions
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Russie
élevage du renne
chasse
animaux
sauvage
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relations humains-animaux
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
description International audience 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 ...
author2 European University at Saint Petersburg
Cultures, Environnements, Arctique, Représentations, Climat (CEARC)
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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title The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders
title_short The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders
title_full The wild at home and the magic of contact. Stories about wild animals and spirits from Amudisy Evenki hunters and reindeer herders
title_fullStr 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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