Stealing for oneself and the others. Anthropological approach of the cattle thefts in West Mongolia
(2012) Freedom, Creativity, and Decision: Towards an Anthropology of the Human Subject — Location: University of Cambridge (2.April.2012)
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- Firstly, my research project aims at studying anthropologically the relationships between two ethnic groups of nomadic herders living in West Mongolia, namely the Dörvöd and the Tuvan, and their natural environment. Secondly, following the intuition of Haudricourt (1962: 40-50) and others (see section 3) I wish to analyse the possible correlations between the ways in which these two conflicting neighbouring groups relate to their natural environment and the ways in which they perceive each other and relate to each other. In other words, to what extent may human/non-human relationships be correlated with human/human relationships? Such a question will be analysed from the perspective of a recurrent socio-economic activity, which has never been studied academically before in West Mongolia, that is, the thefts of livestock involving the Dörvöd and the Tuvan herders who live just below the Russian border in the province of Uvs.
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Charlier, B. (2012). Stealing for oneself and the others. Anthropological approach of the cattle thefts in West Mongolia. Freedom, Creativity, and Decision: Towards an Anthropology of the Human Subject, University of Cambridge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/65572