Living with herds [electronic resource] : human-animal co-existence in Mongolia / Natasha Fijn.
2011
GN635.M66 F56 2011
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Title
Living with herds [electronic resource] : human-animal co-existence in Mongolia / Natasha Fijn.
Author
Fijn, Natasha, 1975-
ISBN
9781107000902
9781139007955 (electronic book)
9781139007955 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xix, p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps.
Call Number
GN635.M66 F56 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.09517/3
Summary
"Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in an ethnographic account of herders and their herd animals in the mountains of Mongolia"-- Provided by publisher.
"Domestic animals have lived with humans for thousands of years and remain essential to the everyday lives of people throughout the world. In this book, Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in a study that blends biological and social anthropology, ethology, and ethnography. She examines the social behavior of humans and animals in a contemporary Mongolian herding society. After living with Mongolian herding families, Dr. Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides of the human-animal relationship. Examining their reciprocal social behavior and communication with one another, she demonstrates how herd animals influence Mongolian herders' lives and how the animals themselves are active partners in the domestication process"-- Provided by publisher.
"Domestic animals have lived with humans for thousands of years and remain essential to the everyday lives of people throughout the world. In this book, Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in a study that blends biological and social anthropology, ethology, and ethnography. She examines the social behavior of humans and animals in a contemporary Mongolian herding society. After living with Mongolian herding families, Dr. Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides of the human-animal relationship. Examining their reciprocal social behavior and communication with one another, she demonstrates how herd animals influence Mongolian herders' lives and how the animals themselves are active partners in the domestication process"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.