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The ecology of pastoralism /

"In The Ecology of Pastoralism, a diverse group of contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism's significant impact on humanity's basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the network of social, political, and religious institutions existing within variou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kardulias, P. Nick (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Pastoralism as an Adaptive Strategy / P. Nick Kardulias
  • The Study of Nomads in the Republic of Kazakhstan / Claudia Chang
  • The Ecology of Inner Asian Pastoral Nomadism / Nikolay Kradin
  • Agropastoralism and Transhumance in Hunza / Homayun Sidky
  • Animals, Identity, and Mortuary Behavior in Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Mongolia : A Reassessment of Faunal Remains in Mortuary Monuments of Nomadic Pastoralists / Erik G. Johannesson
  • Kalas and Kurgans : Some Considerations on Late Iron Age Pastoralism within the Central Asian Oasis of Chorasmia / Michelle Negus Cleary
  • FulBe Pastoralists and the Neo-Patrimonial State in the Chad Basin / Mark Moritz
  • Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use : An Historical Perspective / Lawrence A. Kuznar
  • Accidental Dairy Farmers : Social Transformations in a Rural Irish Parish / Mark T. Shutes
  • Real Milk from Mechanical Cows : Adaptations among Irish Dairy Cattle Farmers / Mark T. Shutes
  • Island Pastoralism, Isolation, and Connection : An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Herding on Dokos, Greece / P. Nick Kardulias
  • The Ecology of Herding : Conclusions, Questions, Speculations / Thomas D. Hall.