Faces of the wolf : managing the human, non-human boundary in Mongolia
Record details
- ISBN: 9004271120
- ISBN: 9789004271128
- ISBN: 9004271139
- ISBN: 9789004271135
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : color illustrations, color map
remote - Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : The wolf at the margins -- From victim to giver : interpreting wolf attacks and revealing a morality -- Hunting the wolf for 'wind horses' and revealing the individual -- "Everything and its contrary" : between morality and ethics, equilibrium and excess, humanity and animality, what is a wolf? -- Extending bodies : concealing and revealing persons through wolf's ankle bones and other objects kept near the body -- Between surfaces and depths, actions and transformations, contours and tensions : no homeland for the wolf -- Concluding remarks : Between differences, encompassments and repetitions : "who holds the strings of the wind?" |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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