Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers by Tim Ingold

Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers by Tim Ingold

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.

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK and Jo Lee Vergunst is RCUK Academic Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780521358873
ISBN 10	0521358876
Title	Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers
Author	Tim Ingold
Series	Cambridge Studies In Social And Cultural Anthropology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1988-03-31
Number of pages	340
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