A Song for the Horses by Kip Hutchins - 9780816555673

A Song for the HorsesMusical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia\nAuthor(s): Kip Hutchins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Arizona Press, United States\nImprint: University of Arizona Press\nISBN-13: 9780816555673, 978-0816555673\nSynopsis\nAs permafrost in Siberia continues to melt and the steppe in the Gobi turns to desert, people in Mongolia are faced with overlapping climate crises. Some nomadic herders describe climate change as the end of a world. They are quick to add that the world has ended before for Indigenous people in North Asia, as waves of colonialism have left the steppe with a complicated web of [url] Song for the Horsesby K. G. Hutchins examines cases in which people respond to the pressures of climate change by drawing on cultural heritage to foster social resiliency. \n Hutchinss ethnographic research, spanning more than a decade, provides a vivid and intimate portrayal of Mongolian life. Musicians use the morin khuur, or horse fiddle, to e.