Plural World Interpretations: The Case of the South-Siberian Tyvans

exemplify the flexibility and plurality of human

interpretation and social behaviour. Anett C. Oelschlaegel

demonstrates that local actors utilise models that are both

complementary and contradictory.

“below the … declamatory level, however, most Tyvans were

undogmatic pragmaticians, who constantly contradicted

themselves or displayed a consistent inconsistency in their

subjectively intended meaning.”

Professor emeritus Bernhard Streck, University of Leipzig