Living with herds : human-animal co-existence in Mongolia

Fijn, Natasha 1975- (Author).

Summary: "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 examines the social behavior of humans and animals in a contemporary Mongolian herding society. After living with Mongolian herding families, Dr. Fijn has observed through firsthand experience both sides of the human-animal relationship. Examining their reciprocal social behavior and communication with one another, she demonstrates how herd animals influence Mongolian herders' lives and how the animals themselves are active partners in the domestication process"--

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Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Crossing boundaries. Prologue: Life in the Khangai mountains -- Introduction -- A Mongolian etho-ethnography -- The oocial herd. Social spheres -- Names, symbols, colours and breeding -- Multi-species enculturation -- Tameness and control -- Living with herds. In the land of the horse -- The cycle of life -- The domestic and the wild -- The sacred animal -- Conclusion: Co-domestic lives.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.