Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Reindeer and Dogs in Modern Tozhu Mixed Economy in the Republic of Tyva (Russia)

该奖项支持提瓦共和国(俄罗斯联邦西伯利亚南部)的人种学研究。它考察了土著猎人和牧民与他们的驯鹿、狗和马之间演变的复杂的经济和社会关系。该奖项将允许研究中央集权的经济计划如何影响西伯利亚的托珠驯鹿牧民和猎人之间的关系，以及当这些限制被取消时，托珠如何成功地重新适应他们祖先的生活方式。这位研究人员准确地辩称，了解这些关系是更广泛地了解土著经济对变化的适应能力和全球土著生计的长期可持续性的关键。Tozhu传统上依赖驯鹿、狗和马作为食物、交通工具和狩猎工具。然而，在苏联时代，政府推动了大规模的驯鹿放牧，并制定了宰杀狗的政策，最终导致了当地品种的消失。在后苏联体制中，狗再次成为东朱人狩猎和放牧不可或缺的一部分，这项研究旨在了解人与动物的关系在21世纪东朱驯鹿放牧社区的基础上所扮演的复杂角色。关于这一主题的研究很少，在西伯利亚的这一地区也没有。

This award supports ethnographic research in the Republic of Tyva (southern Siberia, Russian Federation). It examines the complex economic and social relationships that have evolved between indigenous hunters and herders and their working reindeer, dogs, and horses. The award will allow to study how centralized economic planning affected the relationships between Tozhu reindeer herders and hunters of Siberia and how, when these restrictions were removed, the Tozhu successfully re-adapted to their ancestral way of life. The researcher accurately argues that understanding these relationships are key to a wider understanding of indigenous economies' resilience to change and the long-term sustainability of indigenous livelihoods globally.The Tozhu traditionally relied on reindeer, dogs, and horses for food, transportation, and hunting. However, during the Soviet era large-scale reindeer herding was promoted by the government, which also instituted a policy of killing dogs, which ultimately caused the disappearance of indigenous breeds. In the post-Soviet system, dogs have once again become an integral part of hunting and herding among the Tozhu and this research aims to understand the complex role human-animal relationships play in the foundation of the Tozhu reindeer herding communities in the 21st century. Very little research has been done on this topic and none in this region of Siberia.