Oskal carried his laptop to the window of his office to show me the view, all the way in New York. Oskal, who also serves as the executive director of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry (I.C.R. Formal policy recommendations shared the pages with tips on preserving reindeer meat in buckets of salt and snow and the difference in cooking times for walrus (long) and bearded seal (short). The Nenets lasso the reindeer by the neck and strangle it swiftly, believing this brings less suffering, spilling none of the treasured blood. The book wasn’t glossy or destined for a coffee table; the photographs — a crowded platter of reindeer eyes, reindeer being butchered in bloodstained snow — were documentarian in approach and intentionally unaestheticized.

Source: International New York Times November 09, 2020 15:00 UTC