Living with Herds Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia

Domestic animals have lived with humans for thousands of years and remain essential to the everyday lives of people throughout the world. In this book, Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in a study that blends biological and social anthropology, ethology and ethnography. She e...

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Main Author: Fijn, Natasha
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press 11.04.2011
Edition:1
Subjects:
Animal domestication
Customs
Domestic animals
Domestication
Domestication > Mongolia
Ecology
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnology > Mongolia
Ethology
Herders > Mongolia
Herding
Human-animal relationships
Human-animal relationships > Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongols > Domestic animals
Social anthropology
Social behaviour
Social life
Social life and customs
ISBN:9781107000902, 1107000904
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Table of Contents:
  • ANIMALS AS PERSONS -- CONCLUSION -- 5 MULTISPECIES ENCULTURATION -- INTRODUCTION -- MEANS OF COMMUNICATION -- THE EMOTIVE USE OF SONG -- HERDING LANGUAGE -- COMMUNICATING WITH INDIVIDUALS -- THE EMBODIMENT OF HORSE AND RIDER -- Horse Gaits -- CONCLUSION -- 6 TAMENESS AND CONTROL -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. TAMENESS -- LEADERS AND ORPHANS -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MILK -- Surrogate Mothers -- FOOD INCENTIVES -- HABITUATION TO HANDLING -- PART II. CONTROL -- CONTAINMENT -- DOMINANCE AND HIERARCHY -- TRAINING -- Ox Carts -- Breaking in Horses -- PUNISHMENT -- CONCLUSION -- PART THREE: LIVING WITH HERDS -- 7 IN THE LAND OF THE HORSE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE HORSE IN MONGOLIA'S PAST -- THE MONGOLIAN HORSE AS CONQUERER -- HORSE CULTURE -- PART II. THE NAADAM -- SELECTION -- The Astrological Wheel -- TRAINING AND RACE PREPARATION -- THE RACE -- THE PRAISE CEREMONY -- CONCLUSION -- 8 THE CYCLE OF LIFE: BIRTH TO DEATH, SPRING TOWINTER -- INTRODUCTION -- SPRING ACTIVITY -- Haircutting and Combing -- Moving to Different Pastures -- SUMMER ACTIVITY -- ASummer's Day in the Life of Saikhanaa -- Moving to a New Encampment -- AUTUMN ACTIVITY -- WINTER ACTIVITY -- CONCLUSION -- 9 THE DOMESTIC AND THEWILD -- INTRODUCTION -- Categorisation of the Wild and the Domestic -- ANIMALS AND PLANTS BEYOND THE DOMESTIC SPHERE -- THEWOLF AND THE DOG -- The Mongolian Wolf -- The Mongolian Dog -- TREATMENT OF ILLNESSES AND AILMENTS -- MEDICINAL PLANTS AND MAGIC MEDICINE -- CONCLUSION -- 10 THE SACRED ANIMAL -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MONGOLIAN CALENDAR -- DEATH OF AN ANIMAL -- THE SETER AS PROTECTOR -- The Animism of Objects -- CONCLUSION -- WINTER -- CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
  • COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LISTS OF PLATES, FIGURES, MAPS, TABLES, AND ONLINE VIDEO SEGMENTS -- GLOSSARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIVINGWITH HERDS -- SPRING -- PART ONE: CROSSING BOUNDARIES -- PROLOGUE: LIFE IN THE KHANGAI MOUNTAINS -- FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MONGOLIA -- BULGAN FIELD SITE: DOGSOMJAV'S ENCAMPMENT -- ARKHANGAI FIELD SITE: CHOIJO'S ENCAMPMENT -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- PART I. REDEFINING DOMESTICATION -- ORIGIN THEORIES -- UNGULATES IN MONGOLIA -- Mongolian Horses -- Mongolian Cattle -- Mongolian Sheep and Goats -- PART II. INNER ASIAN NOMADS -- MONGOLIAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS HERD ANIMALS -- CONCLUSION -- 2 AMONGOLIAN ETHO-ETHNOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- Significant Others -- PERSPECTIVES ON THE DOMESTIC ANIMAL -- INGOLD'S PERCEPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT -- TRUST AND DOMINATION -- CONCLUSION -- SUMMER -- PART TWO: THE SOCIAL HERD -- 3 SOCIAL SPHERES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE -- Perceptions of a Landscape -- The Core of the Co-Domestic Sphere -- THE LANDSCAPE OF THEWINTER ENCAMPMENT -- THE LANDSCAPE OF THE SUMMER ENCAMPMENT -- PART II. THE SOCIAL ANIMAL -- THE SOCIAL MONGOLIAN HORSE -- Social Structure of the Mongolian Horse -- The Character of the Mongolian Stallion -- Learning Herd Behaviour -- THE SOCIAL MONGOLIAN COW -- Social Structure of Mongolian Cattle -- The Character of the Mongolian Bull -- Bulls (bukh) and Mongolian Wrestling (bokh) -- THE SOCIAL MONGOLIAN SHEEP AND GOAT -- Multilevel, Cross-Species Herds -- TheHerder of Males -- Social Structure of the Mongolian Sheep and Goat Herd -- CONCLUSION -- 4 NAMES, SYMBOLS, COLOURS, AND BREEDING -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. BREEDING -- MONGOLIAN BREEDS -- The Father of the Herd -- CASTRATION -- CROSS-BRED COWS -- SELECTION -- PART II. NOMENCLATURE -- THE USE OF SYMBOLS -- INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION -- Sheep and Goats -- Cattle -- Horses -- Humans