The Horse in My Blood: Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains (Interspecies Encounters, 4)

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 community with close human-horse relationships and uses her knowledge of the local language and horsemanship practices. Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, she engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration and Translation Introduction — Research is Responsible Guesting Chapter 1 — Embodying Life Energy of People Chapter 2 — Your Homeland Listens to You Chapter 3 — Learning in Multispecies Communities Chapter 4 — Ezir Kara: The Racehorse as a Kindship Nexus Conclusion — Braiding Stories, Sharing Knowledge Appendix A — Featured Interlocutors Appendix B — The List of Horse-Related Terms Appendix C — Multispecies Stories from Borderland Glossary References Index