Victoria Soyan Peemot
Biographic Data
| ID | 219808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Soyan Peemot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria Soyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Peemot |
| SIGNATURE | PEEMOT V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1307-6739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-building at a Pastoral Frontier, written by Thomas White
Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia. Framed through Indigenous research methodologies and grounded in the author's personal linguistic and cultural ties, the study explores how museum obje…
The relational plant: Spiraea Söösken among the Tyva Pastoralists
This paper explores Indigenous knowledge about plants among nomadic pastoralists in the Tyva Republic, North Asia. It focuses on the Rosaceae family's genus Spiraea which is represented by several species in Tyva and corresponds with the taxon söösken in the folk nomenclature. The study reveals factors that inform the Tyva pastoralists’ relationship with söösken, its uses for different purposes, and challenges in correlation of the folk taxon söö…
Animacy of Plants: Indigenous Relationalities in Global Landscapes
Lectio præcursoria: The Horse In My Blood-Land-based kinship in the Sayan and Altay Mountains, Inner Asia
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate's research or even anthropological research in general
Storying with Homelands: Emplaced (Hi)stories and Resilience-In-Making
Pastoralists who live in the Tyva Republic approach their home landscapes as sentient and engage with them through a reciprocal relationship. The sociality of landscapes builds upon a multigenerational belonging amongst Tyva kinship groups with their homelands. In this study, I explore how community-homeland belonging allows for a more-than-human practice of engaging with the past-storying with homelands. I draw on a case study, which involves th…
Livestock Dung Use in Steppe Pastoralism: Renewable Resources, Care, and Respect for Sentient Nonhumans
This article studies the use of livestock dung in the social and ecological context of pastoralism in the Tyva Republic, Inner Asia. In steppe ecologies, livestock dung, depending on its (mis)management, can be a valuable resource or a threat to animals’ health and herders’ well-being. Its use is embedded in the relationships between herder-livestock communities and landscapes, which are sentient and superordinate. Utilizing dung for household ne…
Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed
This study presents a brief inquiry into the human-canine relationship among the Tyvan pastoralists in the Altai-Sayan Mountainous region of Inner Asia. Their co-evolution is intimately bound together, and the inter-species relationship includes several aspects and roles. The authors investigate especially the dogs’ responsibilities in taiga and steppe habitats and how the language reveals these responsibilities by focusing on distinctions betwee…
We Eat Whom We Love: Hippophagy among Tyvan Herders
This paper examines hippophagy among Tyvan pastoralists. Horse-meat eating practice is defined by herder-horse relationships, the horse's not-quite-livestock position and its instrumental and symbolic values. Complexity of influencing factors engenders a ritual which regulates slaughtering and eating meat of the most appreciated horses. As a result of this, ritual transformation of animals into meat does not turn them into the absent referent; ra…
We Eat Whom We Love: Hippophagy among Tyvan Herders
This paper examines hippophagy among Tyvan pastoralists. Horse-meat eating practice is defined by herder-horse relationships, the horse's not-quite-livestock position and its instrumental and symbolic values. Complexity of influencing factors engenders a ritual which regulates slaughtering and eating meat of the most appreciated horses. As a result of this, ritual transformation of animals into meat does not turn them into the absent referent; ra…
Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia. Framed through Indigenous research methodologies and grounded in the author's personal linguistic and cultural ties, the study explores how museum obje…
Livestock Dung Use in Steppe Pastoralism: Renewable Resources, Care, and Respect for Sentient Nonhumans
This article studies the use of livestock dung in the social and ecological context of pastoralism in the Tyva Republic, Inner Asia. In steppe ecologies, livestock dung, depending on its (mis)management, can be a valuable resource or a threat to animals’ health and herders’ well-being. Its use is embedded in the relationships between herder-livestock communities and landscapes, which are sentient and superordinate. Utilizing dung for household ne…
We Eat Whom We Love: Hippophagy among Tyvan Herders
This paper examines hippophagy among Tyvan pastoralists. Horse-meat eating practice is defined by herder-horse relationships, the horse's not-quite-livestock position and its instrumental and symbolic values. Complexity of influencing factors engenders a ritual which regulates slaughtering and eating meat of the most appreciated horses. As a result of this, ritual transformation of animals into meat does not turn them into the absent referent; ra…
Livestock Dung Use in Steppe Pastoralism: Renewable Resources, Care, and Respect for Sentient Nonhumans
This article studies the use of livestock dung in the social and ecological context of pastoralism in the Tyva Republic, Inner Asia. In steppe ecologies, livestock dung, depending on its (mis)management, can be a valuable resource or a threat to animals’ health and herders’ well-being. Its use is embedded in the relationships between herder-livestock communities and landscapes, which are sentient and superordinate. Utilizing dung for household ne…
Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed
This study presents a brief inquiry into the human-canine relationship among the Tyvan pastoralists in the Altai-Sayan Mountainous region of Inner Asia. Their co-evolution is intimately bound together, and the inter-species relationship includes several aspects and roles. The authors investigate especially the dogs’ responsibilities in taiga and steppe habitats and how the language reveals these responsibilities by focusing on distinctions betwee…
Lectio præcursoria: The Horse In My Blood-Land-based kinship in the Sayan and Altay Mountains, Inner Asia
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate's research or even anthropological research in general
Storying with Homelands: Emplaced (Hi)stories and Resilience-In-Making
Pastoralists who live in the Tyva Republic approach their home landscapes as sentient and engage with them through a reciprocal relationship. The sociality of landscapes builds upon a multigenerational belonging amongst Tyva kinship groups with their homelands. In this study, I explore how community-homeland belonging allows for a more-than-human practice of engaging with the past-storying with homelands. I draw on a case study, which involves th…
The relational plant: Spiraea Söösken among the Tyva Pastoralists
This paper explores Indigenous knowledge about plants among nomadic pastoralists in the Tyva Republic, North Asia. It focuses on the Rosaceae family's genus Spiraea which is represented by several species in Tyva and corresponds with the taxon söösken in the folk nomenclature. The study reveals factors that inform the Tyva pastoralists’ relationship with söösken, its uses for different purposes, and challenges in correlation of the folk taxon söö…
Animacy of Plants: Indigenous Relationalities in Global Landscapes
Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia. Framed through Indigenous research methodologies and grounded in the author's personal linguistic and cultural ties, the study explores how museum obje…
China’s Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-building at a Pastoral Frontier, written by Thomas White
Geography (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Livestock (5 works) · Pastoralism (5 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Forestry (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)