Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers - Reindeer Economies and Their Transformations

Klappentext In this book Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Preface; Prologue: on reindeer and men; 1. Predation and protection; 2. Taming, herding and breeding; 3. Modes of production (1): hunting to pastoralism; 4. Modes of production (2): pastoralism to ranching; Epilogue: on band organization, leadership and ideology; Appendix: the names and locations of circumboreal peoples; Notes; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Ingold
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.1988
• EAN: 9780521358873
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35887-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)