Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

By Alex C. Oehler, Berghahn Books, 2020

https://berghahnbooks.com/title/OehlerBeyond

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. Following herder-hunters of the Eastern Saian Mountains in southern Siberia, the author examines how Soiot and Tofa households embrace unpredictability, recognize sentience, and encourage autonomy in all their relations with animals, spirits, and land features. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.