TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charlier,Bernard
TI  - Feeding wolves with sheep and turning an act of predation into a “meritorious” gift among nomadic herders in Mongolia
PY  - 2018///.
							
N1  - 60
N2  - This article analyses one of the ways in which Mongolian herders interpret an attack of wolves on their herds. The loss of domestic animals is sometimes perceived as a gift to the wolves and more particularly to the spirit master of the land and wild animals. The question investigated in this article is: why do the herders transform a loss resulting from an act of predation into a gift? The answer to this question brings into play a particular perception of the environment, the circulation of a symbolic good, hishig, traduired as “grace” or “fortune,” and the Buddhist notion of “merit,” buyan
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-du-mauss-2018-2-page-149?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -