What’s in a Model? Shifting Multispecies Relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8779
dc.title	What’s in a Model? Shifting Multispecies Relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)
dc.contributor.author	Peers Eleanor
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2022/1/whats-in-a-model-shifting-multispecies-relationshi/
dc.description.abstract	This paper explores continuities in multispecies relationships, expressed through art. It delineates these continuities through the study of a nineteenth-century model of a Sakha Yhyakh celebration. The indigenous Siberian Sakha people have experienced considerable transformation since the advent of Russian settlers. The story of the Yhyakh model illustrates the alterations and continuities in Sakha experiences of multispecies community. It also shows how an interconnected community of human and non-human beings generates aesthetic expectations and affordances that contrast with those of a human-centric worldview.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Issue 1 \| June 2022
dc.issued	2022-07-27
dc.dateAccepted	2022-07-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-03-21
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2022/01/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Indigenous art
dc.subject	Multispecies relationship
dc.subject	Sakha (Yakutia)
dc.subject	Siberia
dc.subject	Yhyakh

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Eleanor Peers University of Cambridge, UK

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abstract

This paper explores continuities in multispecies relationships, expressed through art. It delineates these continuities through the study of a nineteenth-century model of a Sakha Yhyakh celebration. The indigenous Siberian Sakha people have experienced considerable transformation since the advent of Russian settlers. The story of the Yhyakh model illustrates the alterations and continuities in Sakha experiences of multispecies community. It also shows how an interconnected community of human and non-human beings generates aesthetic expectations and affordances that contrast with those of a human-centric worldview.

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July 27, 2022

Accepted

July 12, 2022

Submitted

March 21, 2022

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Keywords: Sakha (Yakutia) • Indigenous art • Multispecies relationship • Yhyakh • Siberia

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