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Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and their Transformations

By Tim Ingold

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
9780521358873, 9780521225885, 9780511558047, 0521358876, 0521225884, 051155804X
LCC
GN673 .I53
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6802909 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
340\336
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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