What is a reindeer? Indigenous perspectives from northeast Siberia
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The reindeer (<jats:italic>Rangifer tarandus</jats:italic>) is the mainstay of most of the indigenous cultures and economies of the Eurasian north. Yet much of the literature ignores indigenous perspectives in favour of ecologica...
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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/245375 2024-02-04T10:04:07+01:00 What is a reindeer? Indigenous perspectives from northeast Siberia Vitebsky, Piers Alekseyev, Anatoly 2015-07 application/pdf https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245375 English eng eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000333 Polar Record https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245375 41 Environmental Sciences 4104 Environmental Management 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies Article 2015 ftunivcam 2024-01-11T23:31:30Z <jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The reindeer (<jats:italic>Rangifer tarandus</jats:italic>) is the mainstay of most of the indigenous cultures and economies of the Eurasian north. Yet much of the literature ignores indigenous perspectives in favour of ecological perspectives based on a resource-oriented model. While acknowledging the role of scientific writing on reindeer, here we explore the meaning of reindeer economies that are also reindeer cultures. We show how reindeer can be endowed with a personhood which parallels that of humans, leading to a working partnership which encompasses both ecological and spiritual dimensions. Even when reindeer herders qualify in veterinary science, this does not wipe out their indigenous understanding of the nature of the reindeer. We relate this to the physical, social and moral demands of life in the taiga.</jats:p> This version is the author accepted manuscript and will appear in a revised by Cambridge University Press in Polar Record. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 The article can also be viewed on the Polar Record website here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9293359&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0032247414000333 Article in Journal/Newspaper Rangifer tarandus taiga Siberia Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The reindeer (<jats:italic>Rangifer tarandus</jats:italic>) is the mainstay of most of the indigenous cultures and economies of the Eurasian north. Yet much of the literature ignores indigenous perspectives in favour of ecological perspectives based on a resource-oriented model. While acknowledging the role of scientific writing on reindeer, here we explore the meaning of reindeer economies that are also reindeer cultures. We show how reindeer can be endowed with a personhood which parallels that of humans, leading to a working partnership which encompasses both ecological and spiritual dimensions. Even when reindeer herders qualify in veterinary science, this does not wipe out their indigenous understanding of the nature of the reindeer. We relate this to the physical, social and moral demands of life in the taiga.</jats:p> This version is the author accepted manuscript and will appear in a revised by Cambridge University Press in Polar Record. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 The article can also be viewed on the Polar Record website here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9293359&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0032247414000333 |
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