Abstract
The article considers ῾human - animal’ relations of contemporary Altaians. The ethnic culture of Altaians - livestock breeders of Southern Siberia - is experiencing rapid transformations nowadays. However, the community so far retain some ancient beliefs, concepts and practices. And ‘human - animal’ relations are still an understudied aspect of Altaian culture. Proceeding from works by classical ethnology scholars, the author’s field materials, ethnographic monographs dealing with livestock breeding practices of peoples traditionally and basically engaged in such activities, the paper attempts to examine human - animal relations inherent to present-day Altaians
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