Who Owns the Stock? : : Collective and Multiple Property Rights in Animals / / ed. by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Günther Schlee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beach, Hugh,; Diallo, Youssouf,; Donahoe, Brian,; Finke, Peter,; Gray, Patty A.,; Khazanov, Anatoly M.,; Moritz, Mark,; Pelican, Michaela,; Schlee, Günther,; Stammler, Florian,; Tonah, Steve,; Ventsel, Aimar,
• HerausgeberIn: Khazanov, Anatoly M.,; Schlee, Günther,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study. Focusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasian steppes, this volume addresses the issue of property rights and the changes these societies have undergone due to the direct or indirect influence of modernization and globalization processes. The contributors also investigate the interplay of older sets of rights and modern marketing policies; political, ecological and economic effects of collectivization and de-collectivization; the existence of collective and private property in the Soviet Union and its successor states; state taxation and destocking measures in African dry lands; and the effects of quarantine, as well as import and export regulations. The rich and well-researched ethnographic, historical, and economic data in these chapters provides new theoretical insights into the matter of property rights in animals.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I Tundra and Taiga -- Chapter 1 ‘I should have some deer, but I don’t remember how many’: Confused Ownership of Reindeer in Chukotka, Russia -- Chapter 2 Reindeer, Social Relations and Networks in a Post-Socialist Arctic Community: The Dolgan in Sakha -- Chapter 3 Earmarks, Furmarks and the Community: Multiple Reindeer Property among West Siberian Pastoralists -- Chapter 4 ‘Trust’ or ‘Domination’? Divergent Perceptions of Property in Animals among the Tozhu and the Tofa of South Siberia -- Chapter 5 Milk and Antlers: A System of Partitioned Rights and Multiple Holders of Reindeer in Northern China -- Part II The Eurasian Steppe -- Chapter 6 Pastoralism and Property Relations in Contemporary Kazakhstan -- Chapter 7 Property Rights in Livestock among Mongolian Pastoralists: Categories of Ownership and Categories of Control -- Part III Africa -- Chapter 8 Forms and Modalities of Property Rights in Cattle in a Fulbe Society (Western Burkina Faso) -- Chapter 9 Individualization of Livestock Ownership in Fulbe Family Herds: The Effects of Pastoral Intensification and Islamic Renewal in Northern Cameroon -- Chapter 10 From Cultural Property to Market Goods: Changes in the Economic Strategies and Herd Management Rationales of Agro-Pastoral Fulbe in North West Cameroon -- Chapter 11 Fulbe Pastoralists and the Changing Property Relations in Northern Ghana -- Chapter 12 Multiple Rights in Animals An East African Overview -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index