Selcen Küçüküstel, "Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia" (Berghahn, 2021)
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The Role of the Duja in Human Animal Relations
In terms of subsistence methods, you define the duja as both reindeer herders and hunter gatherers. Can you talk a little bit about how both sort of livestock pastoralism and hunting and gathering are practiced among the duja? Yeah, I think that's one of the interesting things about duja community as well, which was also kind of the topic of my thesis dissertation. So they have reindeer, so in the first glance they look like pastoralists that just have reindeers. But the thing is that they practice small-scale reindeer pastoralism,. The main function of the reindeer is more for riding and pecking and for their milk
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