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Nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders : multispecies and spatial ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia /
This book, based on anthropological research carried out by the author between 2008 and 2016, addresses the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Siberia from a cross-comparative perspective. In addition to classical methods of survey, Charlotte Ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | North-East Asian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration and translations
- Transliteration table
- Introduction
- Nomadizing among the Mongols
- On both sides of the Mongolian-Russian border
- In the field
- The human-animal-environment triad
- 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?
- 2. To hold on 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
- 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
- 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
- List of figures and pictures
- Figures
- Figure 1 Location map of the fieldwork sites
- Figure 2 Nomadization route of four families in the Bayantsagaan Valley (Marchina 2013: 47)
- Figure 3 Comparative table of livestock and nomadization practices of the four herders in 2011
- Figure 4 Overview of the nomadization routes of herders in the Bayantsagaan Valley
- Figure 5 Kinship diagram of Ganzorig's family
- in black, people living on the encampment
- Figure 6 Location and characteristics of the six models of Mongolian nomadism distinguished by Simukov (2007: 601-602)
- Figure 7 Nomadization routes of Uranchimeg's family in normal or snowy winters
- Figure 8 Route of the 650 km migration carried out by Batbayar and his family in 2001
- Figure 9 Kinship diagram of Batbayar's and Erdenetsetseg's families