Animal Autonomy and Intermittent Coexistences: North Asian Modes of Herding

Stépanoff, Charles; Marchina, Charlotte; Fossier, Camille; Bureau, Nicolas

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“…In the recent collective article cited by Anderson et al. (Stépanoff, Marchina, Fossier & Bureau ), we argued that North Asian herding systems often combine different modes of herding (a notion close to what Anderson et al. call ‘settings’) which rely either on human control or on animal autonomy.…”

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“…The JH is also a child's favorite plaything-another crosscultural sphere of private use-in Yakutia (Dyakonova, 2017), Ural (Aleksandrova, 2017), Sakhalin (Mamcheva, 2012, p. 197), Uzbekistan (Beliayev, 1933), Kyrgyzstan (Vinogradov, 1958, p. 180), Afghanistan (Slobin, 1976, p. 53), Mongolia (Pegg, 2001), Japan (Ishi, 1916), southeastern China (Picken, 1957), Polynesia (McLean, 1999), Indonesia (McPhee, 1955, and Western Europe (Kolltveit, 2006, p. 109). Toying with a JH is typical during the long hours of herding (Shchurov, 1995), a task entrusted to children in nomadic Asiatic societies (Stépanoff et al, 2017). In Altai, the JH is regarded as a herding instrument (Dorina, 2004).…”

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The Overlooked Tradition of “Personal Music” and Its Place in the Evolution of Music

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This is an attempt to describe and explain so-called timbre-based music as a special system of musicking, communication, and psychological and social usage, which along with its corresponding beliefs constitutes a viable alternative to "frequency-based" music. Unfortunately, the current scientific research into music has been skewed almost entirely in favor of the frequency-based music prevalent in the West. Subsequently, whenever samples of timbre-based music attract the attention of Western researchers, these are usually interpreted as "defective" implementations of frequency-based music. The presence of discrete pitch is often regarded as the structural criterion that distinguishes music from non-music. We would like to present evidence to the contrary-in support of the existence of indigenous music systems based on the discretization and patterning of aspects of timbre, rather than pitch. This evidence comes mainly from extensive ethnographic research systematically conducted in eastern European and Asian parts of Russia from the 1890s. It involved the efforts of thousands of specialists and was coordinated by dozens of research institutions, and it has included not just ethnomusicology but linguistics, philology, organology, archaeology, anthropology, geography, and religious, and social studies. Much of the data has not been translated into Western languages. Although some Soviet-era publications were tainted by Marxist ideology, many researchers strove to provide accurate information (despite at times having been prosecuted for their work), and post-1990 research undertook a substantial revision of ideologically compromised concepts. Timbre-based tonal organization (TO) differs from that based on frequency in its personal orientation: musicking here occurs primarily for oneself and/or for close relatives/friends. Collective music-making is rare and exceptional. The foundation of timbre-based music seems to have vocal roots and rests on "personal song"-a system of personal identification through individualized patterns of rhythm, timbre, and pitch contour, utilized like a "human voice"-whose sound enables

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“…Why does reindeer‐human sociality change when the herd size approaches the threshold of about a hundred? Livestock animals belonging to a herding community are engaged in a dual sociality: the sociality which connects them with humans and the social organization of their herd. In North Asian husbandry systems, these two kinds of sociality alternate in different modes of ‘intermittent coexistence’ (Stépanoff, Marchina, Fossier & Bureau ).…”

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The rise of reindeer pastoralism in Northern Eurasia: human and animal motivations entangled

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Explanatory models of how domestic animals entered human societies often focus on human choices and overlook the role of animal agency in this process. After discussing the dichotomy between nature and society in these models and in anthropology, this article examines the respective roles of animal and human motivations and agencies in the advent of reindeer pastoralism in the Eurasian Arctic. Based on recent multidisciplinary approaches, it hypothesizes an intensification process whereby reciprocal adaptations by reindeer and people gave rise to new hybrid herding socialities. It proposes a holist interpretation that takes account of the triadic nature of the ‘pastoral niche’, characterized by an interaction between humans, animals, and the landscape.

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Animal Autonomy and Intermittent Coexistences: North Asian Modes of Herding

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