Selcen Küçüküstel, "Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia" (Berghahn, 2021)
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The Role of Reindeer in the Family Kinship System
The Dukha believe that when a person breaks a taboo in hunting or in other domains of life, like how can I say people are kind of responsible also from each other's deeds? So community members kind of have relations in that sense that people are responsible for other people's faults as well. And reindeer are also in that system, you know, they believe that's like somebody does something wrong and their hurts may be attacked by wolves,. Or similarly, like they have, they choose a separate reindeer to protect the family. Actually, they have that also in Mongol in her extended steps as well. To cut it short, I think this is why it's different than
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