The Horse of Sakha: Ethnic Symbol in Post-Communist Sakha Republic (Iakutiia)

Author: Maj, Emilie

Source: Sibirica, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2009 , pp. 68-74(7)

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Abstract:

This report is on contemporary processes related to horse breeding in Sakha (Iakutiia), northeastern Russia. I demonstrate the importance of the horse figure in the philosophy of the Sakha, a hunting and herding people of Siberia, as well as the parallelism between the diminishing utilitarian function of the horse and reinforcing symbolism in the post-communist context.

Keywords: HORSE BREEDING; HORSE SYMBOLISM; IAKUT PEOPLE; SAKHA

DOI: 10.3167/sib.2009.080105

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