Dog-craft

Loovers, Jan Peter Laurens

doi:10.3828/hgr.2015.21

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“…Little discussed in this literature, however, is that animals and people in domestic relationships become mutually enskilled within these meshworks of practice and things. This is perhaps most obvious with working animals, where years of daily engagement with specific individuals and items such as yokes, plows, bridles, harnesses, and saddles are required to develop and maintain pragmatic working relationships (Allentuck 2015;Loovers 2015). A reindeer is not just bred by Nenets to pull sleds.…”

Section: Nenets Interpretations Practices and Enskilmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia

Losey

Nomokonova

Arzyutov

et al. 2020

J Archaeol Method Theory

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The study of reindeer domestication provides a unique opportunity to examine how domestication involves more than bodily changes in animals produced through selection. Domestication requires enskilment among humans and animals, and this process of pragmatic learning is dependent on specific forms of material culture. Particularly with the domestication of working animals, the use of such material culture may predate phenotypic and genetic changes produced through selective breeding. The Iamal region of Arctic Siberia is generating an increasingly diverse set of archaeological evidence for reindeer domestication that evidences these processes. Three early sites, Ust'-Polui, Tiutei-Sale I, and Iarte VI, contain artifacts proposed to be parts of headgear worn by transport reindeer, the earliest dating to just over 2000 years ago. Contemporary Nenets reindeer herders scrutinized replicas of these archaeological objects, and comparisons with historic reindeer harness parts from Arctic Russia were also made. Nenets consistently interpreted barbed L-shaped antler pieces from Iamal as headgear parts for training young reindeer in pulling sleds. Some types of swivels were also interpreted as transport reindeer headgear. Based on these consultations with Nenets and observations of their ongoing reindeer domestication practices, we argue that material things such as headgear, harnesses, and sleds are not merely technological means of using or controlling reindeer in transportation but

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Section: Nenets Interpretations Practices and Enskilmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestication as Enskilment: Harnessing Reindeer in Arctic Siberia

Losey

Nomokonova

Arzyutov

et al. 2020

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…Looked at cross-culturally, Russell (2012, 280) stresses that ‘dogs have filled virtually every role in the whole spectrum of human–animal relationships’, including: Companion, Hunter, Herder, Guard, Scavenger, Labourer, Source of Food/Fur, Symbol and Pariah. Many of these relationships required particular forms of skilled and material mutual engagement—or ‘dog-craft’ (Loovers 2015)—to be maintained over time.…”

Section: Hunter-gatherers and Dogsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactions of Care and Control: Human–animal Relationships in Hunter-gatherer Communities in Near-contemporary Eastern Siberia and the Mesolithic of Northwest Europe

Pasarić¹,

Warren²

2019

CAJ

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This contribution explores modes of human–animal interactions in hunter-gatherer communities in near-contemporary eastern Siberia and the Mesolithic of northwest Europe. By discussing notions of care and control and drawing on syntheses of Russian-language ethnographic data from eastern Siberia, this paper explores the diversity and nuances of hunter-gatherers’ interactions with animals. While some contexts may reveal respectful yet diverse treatments of the hunted animals, others suggest that hunter-gatherers also might have interacted with animals kept as pets, captives or companions, thus implicating relations in which notions of care and control seem to be tightly bound.

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