Living with herds : human-animal co-existence in Mongolia / / Natasha Fijn.
"Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in an ethnographic account of herders and their herd animals in the mountains of Mongolia"--
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xix, p., [16] p. of plates :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.