Talk With Everything: Interspecies Communication from the Circumpolar North

Abstract

This book brings together a group of anthropologists, offering insights from their most recent work with Indigenous and Settler communities on animal–human relationships. Covering experiences from Canada, Russia, Mongolia, and the USA, the book investigates how humans and animals express their intentions to each other, how interspecies communication can help detect the presence of intangible entities and interpret their attitude, how different ways of reading animals can conflict (and how this conflict can be resolved), as well as how desires and preferences can be understood across the world of sentient beings, whether at home or in the wild.