Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-142-4 (ISBN)
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Charlotte Marchina is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in Mongolian Studies at Inalco, Paris. Her research on nomadic pastoralism in Mongolia and Southern Siberia bridges social and environmental sciences and explores multimodal ways of producing and transferring knowledge on human-animal relations (multispecies ethnography, GPS tracking, photography). Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist based at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. He is the author of Sinophobia (Hawaii, 2015), coauthor of On the Edge (Harvard, 2021), editor of Voluminous States (Duke, 2020), and coeditor of Yellow Perils (Hawaii, 2019) and Frontier Encounters (Open Book, 2012). He is currently finalizing his latest book, Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke University Press). More information about his current research is available on his website: www.franckbille.com. Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge, which she co-founded, and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Nomadizing among the Mongols
On both sides of the Mongolian-Russian border
In the field
The human-animal-environment triad
CHAPTER 1. NOMAD'S LAND, NO MAN'S LAND?
Nomadizing in Mongolia: adaptations and flexibilities
- Nomadizing in Arkhangai Province
- Unity and diversity in types of Mongolian nomadization
- Flexible routes
- From nomadization to migration
Nomadization in Aga: towards sedentarization
- Nomadization practices in the territory of Zugalai
- Twenty years after. Land privatization
- From privatization to sedentarization: a commonplace?
CHAPTER 2. TO HOLD AND BELONG TO ONE'S LAND
The attractive forces of the nutag
- On the run: animals in search of their nutag
- Walk the line: activating centripetal forces
- Go your own way: roads and paths of the steppe
Maintaining relations with the invisible entities of the nutag
- The ovoo: cornerstone of the relationship with the nutag
- Consecrated animals
CHAPTER 3. SPACES OF SPECIES
The pastures
- Species and herds
- Everyone at home, and the sheep will be well kept
- Sharing pastures
- Pasture rotation
- The autonomy of animals on the pastures
Watching the herds
- Autonomy under surveillance
- Autonomy and indirect supervision
- In search of the herds
- Watching with the neighbours
- Preventing the mix of small livestock
- Monitoring against theft
The encampment and its spaces
- Human habitation, occasionally also for animals
- Livestock in close proximity to humans: other animals on the encampment
- Mobility of encampment structures
- Types of enclosure and their uses
- The limits of the encampment
CHAPTER 4. ANIMALS AND TERRITORIES
Between attachment and detachment: canine interlude
Livestock breeds
- Mongolian breeds
- Breeds in Aga
Hybridizations
"Hay-ewe, out there in the cold..." Local preferences
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.07.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | North East Asian Studies |
Mitarbeit |
Sonstige Mitarbeit: ZONES SENSIBLES, Franck Billé, Caroline Humphrey |
Zusatzinfo | 21 Illustrations, color; 27 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 94-6372-142-8 / 9463721428 |
ISBN-13 | 978-94-6372-142-4 / 9789463721424 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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