Human anxieties, bovine solutions: Political subtexts of native cattle conservation in north-eastern Siberia

• Main Author: Tarasova, Zoia
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2020
• Subjects: Sakha (Yakut); Siberia; cattle breeding; human-animal relations; (ethno)nationalism; social anthropology; Sakha; Yakutsk; Slaughter; Yakut
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315209; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.62318

For over 300 years the Turkic-speaking Sakha of north-eastern Siberia have lived uneasily in a colonial relationship with the Russian/Soviet state. Since the 1990s, there has been a strong ethnic de-colonising backlash which has struggled to find an appropriate form, from attempts to revive shamanis...