Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia
This study presents a brief inquiry into the human-canine relationship among the Tyvan pastoralists in the AltaiSayan Mountainous region of Inner Asia. Their co-evolution is intimately bound together, and the inter-species relationship includes several aspects and roles. The authors investigate espe...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/351078 2024-01-07T09:46:58+01:00 Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia Svanberg, Ingvar Peemot, Victoria Soyan Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies Indigenous Studies Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) 2022-11-25T12:37:02Z 10 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/351078 eng eng Society of Ethnobiology 10.14237/ebl.13.1.2022.1839 Svanberg , I & Peemot , V S 2022 , ' Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia ' , Ethnobiology Letters , vol. 13 , no. 1 , pp. 58-67 . https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.13.1.2022.1839 ORCID: /0000-0002-1307-6739/work/123558299 e4ee9811-8879-4353-982b-b21833ba86b4 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/351078 000884977300001 cc_by_nc openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Multispecies relationships Inner Asian pastoralism Guarding dogs Hunting dogs 5143 Social and cultural anthropology Article publishedVersion 2022 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:05:47Z This study presents a brief inquiry into the human-canine relationship among the Tyvan pastoralists in the AltaiSayan Mountainous region of Inner Asia. Their co-evolution is intimately bound together, and the inter-species relationship includes several aspects and roles. The authors investigate especially the dogs’ responsibilities in taiga and steppe habitats and how the language reveals these responsibilities by focusing on distinctions between hunting dogs (aŋčï ït) and camp guarding dogs (kodančï ït). Both names point at the main tasks—hunting and guarding the seasonal campsite territory. The third category is named xava dogs; the name traces its origin to Chinese languages. Similarly, the story of a small-sized xava dog sheds a light on the Altai-Sayan Mountain region’s historical and religious connections with China. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper taiga HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Ethnobiology Letters 13 1 |
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This study presents a brief inquiry into the human-canine relationship among the Tyvan pastoralists in the AltaiSayan Mountainous region of Inner Asia. Their co-evolution is intimately bound together, and the inter-species relationship includes several aspects and roles. The authors investigate especially the dogs’ responsibilities in taiga and steppe habitats and how the language reveals these responsibilities by focusing on distinctions between hunting dogs (aŋčï ït) and camp guarding dogs (kodančï ït). Both names point at the main tasks—hunting and guarding the seasonal campsite territory. The third category is named xava dogs; the name traces its origin to Chinese languages. Similarly, the story of a small-sized xava dog sheds a light on the Altai-Sayan Mountain region’s historical and religious connections with China. Peer reviewed |
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Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia |
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Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia |
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Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia |
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Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia |
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Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia |
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their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed? an ethnocynology of tyvan pastoralists in inner asia |
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