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Interactions of care and control: Human-animal relationships in hunter-gatherer communities in near-contemporary eastern Siberia and the Mesolithic of northwest Europe

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.

hunter-gatherers, human-animal relationships, Mesolithic, ethnography, East Siberia

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