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Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and Their Transformations

Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and Their Transformations

Ingold, Tim
Fortes, Meyer
Leach, Edmund

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 28

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0521358876
ISBN13: 9780521358873
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 31 1988
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species-the reindeer. Yet some are hunters, others pastoralists, while today traditional pastoral economies are being replaced by a commercially oriented ranch industry. In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the same animal in the same environment, and each viewed in terms of a particular conjunction of social and ecological relations of production. In developing a workable synthesis between ecological and economic approaches in anthropology, Ingold introduces theoretically rigorous concepts for the analysis of specialized animal-based economies, which cast the problem of 'domestication' in an entirely new light.

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