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      The Multiple Faces of the Marmot: Associations with the Plague, Hunting, and Cosmology in Mongolia

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      Journal: Human Ecology
      Publisher: Springer US
      Keywords: Marmots, Plague, Cosmology, Hunting, Pastoralism, Mongolia

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          Mongolians have long known of the association between marmots and the plague. We examine their understanding of the marmot not only as a biological species that can harbour the plague, but also from a cosmological perspective as a chimerical being with potential punishment on hunters who have transgressed ancient taboos. To do so we deconstruct the multiple image of the chimerical marmot in legends, stories, and beliefs. Many Mongolians believe that if the marmot is over-exploited and the population decimated through excessive hunting, hunting households may be punished with infections of the plague.

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            Is Another Cosmopolitics Possible?

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            The concept of cosmopolitics developed by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour keeps open the question of who and what might compose the common world. In this way, cosmopolitics offers a way to avoid the pitfalls of reasonable politics, a politics that, defining in advance that the differences at stake in a disagreement are between perspectives on a single reality, makes it possible to sideline some concerns by deeming them unrealistic and, therefore, unreasonable or irrelevant. Figuring the common world as its possible result, rather than as a starting point, cosmopolitics disrupts the quick recourse to ruling out concerns on the basis of their ostensible lack of reality. And yet, questions remain as to who and what can participate in the composition of the common world. Exploring these questions through ethnographical materials on a conflict around caribou in Labrador, I argue that a cosmopolitics oriented to the common world has important limitations and that another orientation might be possible as well.
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                Natasha Fijn:
                ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2474-3365
                Natasha.Fijn@anu.edu.au
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Hum Ecol Interdiscip J
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Hum Ecol Interdiscip J
                Title: Human Ecology
                Publisher: Springer US (New York )
                ISSN (Print): 0300-7839
                ISSN (Electronic): 1572-9915
                Publication date (Electronic): 13 October 2021
                Pages: 1-11
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.1001.0, ISNI 0000 0001 2180 7477, The Mongolia Institute, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, ; Canberra, Australia
                [2 ]GRID grid.5335.0, ISNI 0000000121885934, Mongolia Inner Asia Studies Unit, , University of Cambridge, ; Cambridge, England
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2474-3365
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                Publisher ID: 264
                DOI: 10.1007/s10745-021-00264-7
                PMC ID: 8513552
                PubMed ID: 34658483
                SO-VID: 1257bd1b-8596-4bab-ac8b-69412ad48690
                Copyright © © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021
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                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                Date accepted : 31 August 2021
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Ecology
                Keywords: marmots,plague,cosmology,hunting,pastoralism,mongolia
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                Keywords: marmots, plague, cosmology, hunting, pastoralism, mongolia

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