• Personhood and companionship among Evenki and their reindeer in Eastern Siberia 

      Landerer, Evelyn (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-08-08)
      This thesis aims to contribute to our understanding of human-reindeer relations among nomadic hunters and reindeer keepers and is based on a discussion of manifestations of personhood in Siberia. I then relate these to contemporary theories in human-animal relations and argue that in the case of this research setting, these relations exceed notions of symbiotic domestication and social contracts. I ...