Horses have had a singular impact on human societies. Beyond increasing interconnectivity
and revolutionizing warfare, reconfigurations of human-horse relationships coincide with …

Animal husbandry was of fundamental consequence in the planning and development of
larger and more permanent communities. Pastoralism is often assumed to be highly mobile …

In the Mongolian language, the word compensation translates as “to fill a hole”; which, much
like the English meaning, refers to a way to counteract loss. As mining expands in rural …

Due to the challenge of defining Chineseness, various disciplines can contribute to the
subject without a single authority having a monopoly over its scope. Post-Chineseness is an …

Given the implausibility of defining Chineseness, studies of Chineseness can emerge from
any inter/discipline, as if all know some aspect of Chineseness, over whose scope no single …

A fascinating interspecies relationship can be seen among the horse breeding pastoralists
in the Altai and Saian Mountains of Inner Asia. Victoria Soyan Peemot herself grew up in a …

Normative understandings of Mongolian kinship have long revolved around metaphors of
flesh, blood and bone, while substantive approaches have focused on materials such as …

Livestock husbandry has long been a main source of livelihood for Central Asian peoples.
The Inner Asian system of pastoralism, characterised by multispecies herding and seasonal …

In this dissertation, I show how leaders in the Mongolian People's Republic used the
collectivization campaign from 1956-1960 to change the way in which Mongolians …

This paper is about what I call the animalification of nationalist sentiments, based on stories,
poems and films about some runaway horses returned to their birthplace, which Mongolians …