Caroline Humphrey, David Andrews Sneath

The End of Nomadism?

Society, State, and the Environment in Inner Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This study delves into the various land use policies of northern China, Mongolia and southern Siberia and examines how these have had varying impacts on the people and ecosystem of this vast region. . . .A tremendous international research effort."--William K. Volkert, Ecologist and Director of the International Lake Baikal (Siberia) Project

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780822321071
• ISBN-10: 0822321076
• Artikelnr.: 42990872

Autorenporträt

Caroline Humphrey is Reader in Asian Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. David Sneath is a Lecturer of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Anthropology at Trinity College in Cambridge. Humphrey and Sneath are the coeditors of Culture and Environment in Inner Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Cultures of Inner Asia
> 2. Changing Pastoral Societies and the Environment in the 20th Century
> 3. Rural Institutions
> 4. Kinship, Networks, and Residence
> 5. Settlement and Urbanism
> 6. Spatial Mobility and Inner Asian Pastoralism
> 7. A Family and Its Networks
> 8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index