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Camels in Asia and North Africa : interdisciplinary perspectives on their past and present significance /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wien :
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
2012.
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| Colección: | Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ;
451. Bd. Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie ; Bd. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Index of pictures
- The camel at the crossroads of multiple perspectives: introduction to an interdisciplinary encounter / Eva-Maria Knoll (Vienna)
- Genetic traces of domestication in Old World camelids / Pamela Burger (Vienna)
- The encounter between Bactrian and Dromedary camels in Central Asia / Bernard Faye (Montpellier), Gaukhar Konuspayeva (Montpellier)
- Embryonic hump development and ancestry in old world camels / Clemens Knospe (Munich), Joerg Kinne (Dubai), Nissar A. Wani (Dubai), Ulrich Wernery (Dubai, Joris Peters (Munich)
- The conservation status and management of wild camels in Mongolia / Adiya Yadamsuren (Ulaanbaatar), Enkhbileg Dulamtseren (Ulaanbaatar), Richard P. Reading (Denver)
- The status of the wild camel in China / Yuan Li (Xinjiang), John Hare (Benenden), Yuan Guoying (Xinjiang), Cheng Yun (Xinjiang)
- Working in a freezer: capturing and collaring wild Bactrian camels / Chris Walzer (Vienna), Petra Kaezensky (Vienna), Enkhbileg Dulamtseren (Ulaanbaatar), Adiya Yadamsuren (Ulaanbaatar)
- Hybridization: a threat to the genetic distinctiveness of the last wild old world camel species / Katja Silbermayr (Vienna), Pamela Burger (Vienna)
- Ancient DNA reveals domestication process: the case of the two-humped camel / Alexandra Trinks (Mainz), Pamela Burger (Vienna), Norbert Benecke (Berline) Joachim Burger (Mainz)
- The tears of the camel: reflections on depictions and descriptions of the camel in Mongolian culture / Maria-Katharina Lang (Vienna)
- The camel and its symbolism in the daily life of the Mongols with particular reference to their folk songs / Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar (Vienna)
- Archeozoology of camels in South-Eastern Arabia / Margarethe Uerpmann (Tübingen)
- Riding camels in Arabia: outline of a revised cultural history / Walter Dostal (Vienna)
- Caravans from South Arabia: roads and organization / Johann Heiss (Vienna)
- Camels in star mythology and in everyday rural life: ethnographic observations in South-West Arabia's Tihāma lowlands / Andre Gingrich (Vienna)
- What camels eat: a study of Arabic ethnobotany / Daniel Martin Varisco (New York)
- The economic significance and traditional management of dromedaries in Syria / Darem Tabbaa (Hama)
- The socio-economic perspective of camels in Pakistan / Arshad Iqbal (Rawalpindi)
- Camel trekking in Jordan: between oriental perception and authentic tourist expectation / Mohammed Shunnaq (Irbid), Susanne Ramadan Shunnaq (Irbid)
- Camel urine and milk in the Arab heritage (folk medicine): a review / Abdulsalam A. Bakhsh (Al-Ahsa), Wael M. El-Deeb (Al-Ahsa), Awatif A. Al-Judaibi (Jeddah)
- The Saharan dromedary as a sign: the prominence of dromedaries among the Nomadic Imuhar Society in the Algerian desert / Anja Fischer (Vienna)
- The traditional management of the one-humped camel in the Horn of Africa: milking, fostering and weaning techniques / Maurizio Dioli (Alicante)
- The informal camel milk marketing sector in Kenya and Somalia / Mario Younan (Nairobi), David M. Mwangi (Nairobi)
- Extending the shelf life of camel milk / Ibtisam E.M. El Zubeir (Khartoum)
- Bringing camels into focus: a photo-essay on dromedaries in the Nigeria-Niger corridor / Abdussamad M. Abdussamad (Göttingen/Nigeria), Demo Joab Usman Kalla (Aberdeen), Shehu Ahmad Maigandi (Sokoto)
- Afterword: camels and deserts / Richard W. Bulliet (New York)
- Pictures.