Living with Herds
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Living with Herds
Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia
Fijn, Natasha (CASS Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra)
Cambridge University Press
11/2017
300
Mole
Inglês
9781108431057
15 a 20 dias
After living with Mongolian herding families, Natasha Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides of the human-animal relationship. Examining their reciprocal social behavior and communication, she demonstrates how herd animals influence Mongolian herders' lives and how the animals themselves are active partners in the domestication process.
Part I. Crossing Boundaries: Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. A Mongolian etho-ethnography; Part II. The Social Herd: 3. Social spheres; 4. Names, symbols, colours and breeding; 5. Multi-species enculturation; 6. Tameness and control; Part III. Living with Herds: 7. In the land of the horse; 8. The cycle of life; 9. The domestic and the wild; 10. The sacred animal; Conclusion.
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After living with Mongolian herding families, Natasha Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides of the human-animal relationship. Examining their reciprocal social behavior and communication, she demonstrates how herd animals influence Mongolian herders' lives and how the animals themselves are active partners in the domestication process.
Part I. Crossing Boundaries: Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. A Mongolian etho-ethnography; Part II. The Social Herd: 3. Social spheres; 4. Names, symbols, colours and breeding; 5. Multi-species enculturation; 6. Tameness and control; Part III. Living with Herds: 7. In the land of the horse; 8. The cycle of life; 9. The domestic and the wild; 10. The sacred animal; Conclusion.
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