Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia By Charlotte Marchina. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. xx, 178 pp. ISBN: 9789463721424 (cloth)

[...]her use of GPS tracking devices captured important empirical data used to track movement patterns among humans and animals. According to her, pastoralists in the region believe that the more intelligent an animal is, the greater its sense of attachment to its nutag. According to Marchina, when “Mongolian and Buryat pastoralists form a community with animals [including dogs], it is not with just any animals, it is only with animals that belong to the territory they live in” (p. 144).