ABSTRACT This paper is based upon ethnographic data gathered in June 2018 in Tunka valley (Eastern Sayan mountainous chain, the republic of Buriattia) and also over the long term fieldwork made by Veronika A. Belyaeva-Sachuk in this region as well as in Oka district. In particular, our research aims at examining relations between mineral resources, local illegal jade gatherers (mineral poachers), and sacred landscapes, represented by local deities, presumed to be active agents of local economic relations and lords of natural resources. We argue here that wild mining is articulated by systematic relations and networks with non-human agents which we discuss here as sacred economy. The latter operates in local societies via types of dialogue between local dwellers and non-human actors which is approached here as sacred capital and investment into local socio-economic development. By represented ethnography we stress the concept of rationality as a basis for economic relations relevant for the Western world and thought. We argue that rational is not the pure principal of human action in economic relations; yet, it is culturally dependent process and product. We do not imply that economic relations are irrational, indeed they are. We discuss here that rational behavior is culturally modified and what is rational for a particular locality or society cannot be simply exported onto another one. Finally, global market is also driven by numerous cultural needs and networks, and operates via histories of various local relations including non-human agentive forces we might easily ignore as a crucial part of typically expected rational directions of economical actors.

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南西伯利亚布里亚提亚东部萨彦山脉野生采矿的神圣经济

摘要 本文基于 2018 年 6 月在通卡河谷（布里亚特共和国东部萨彦岭山脉）收集的人种学数据以及 Veronika A. Belyaeva-Sachuk 在该地区和奥卡地区进行的长期实地调查. 特别是，我们的研究旨在检查矿产资源、当地非法采玉者（矿物偷猎者）和以当地神灵为代表的神圣景观之间的关系，这些圣地被认为是当地经济关系的积极推动者和自然资源的领主。我们在这里争辩说，野生采矿是通过与非人类代理人的系统关系和网络来表达的，我们在这里将其称为神圣经济。后者通过当地居民和非人类行为者之间的对话类型在当地社会中运作，在这里被视为神圣资本和对当地社会经济发展的投资。通过代表民族志，我们强调理性的概念是与西方世界和思想相关的经济关系的基础。我们认为理性不是经济关系中人类行为的纯粹原则；然而，它是依赖于文化的过程和产品。我们并不是暗示经济关系是不合理的，事实上确实如此。我们在这里讨论理性行为是经过文化修改的，对于特定地区或社会的理性不能简单地输出到另一个地区或社会。最后，全球市场也受到众多文化需求和网络的驱动，