
Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and their Transformations: 28 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 28)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521358873, ISBN10: 0521358876
Paperback, 340 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
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.
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.