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Book SynopsisFocusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasian steppes, this volume addresses the issue of property rights and the changes these societies have undergone due to the direct or indirect influence of modernization and globalization processes.
Trade Review “…theoretical diversity around a common subject is the defining strength of the book. The wide range of intellectual interests, from Ingold’s sentient ecology to New Institutional Economics, makes the bibliography a goldmine for graduate students and others seeking to expand their theoretical horizons. The book is an important contribution to economic anthropology, pastoral studies, and legal pluralism. It belongs in every well-stocked institutional library and will doubtlessly be a reference for years to come.” · The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
“…on the whole this volume offers a rich and insightful look into the lives of people whose notions of property can complicate overly simplistic assertions of the naturalness or inevitability of private property regimes that often serve the interests of the globally powerful. At the same time, it challenges perspectives that would deny the growing import and relevance of access to markets and to just allocation of property for individuals across cultures and places. In this regard, I wholeheartedly recommend it to both specialist and general readers with an interest in the politics, economics and ecologies of property, private and otherwise.” · The Toronto Review of Books
“This volume offers a rich and insightful look into the lives of people whose notions of property can complicate overly simplistic assertions of the naturalness or inevitability of private property regimes that often serve the interests of the globally powerful. At the same time, it challenges perspectives that would deny the growing import and relevance of access to markets and to just allocation of property for individuals across cultures and places. In this regard, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to both specialist and general readers with an interest in the politics, economics and ecologies of property, private and otherwise.” · The Toronto Review of Books
Table of Contents List of Maps, Figures and Tables
Introduction
Anatoly M. Khazanov and Günther Schlee
PART I: TUNDRA AND TAIGA
Chapter 1. ‘I should have some deer, but I don’t remember how many’: Confused Ownership of Reindeer in Chukotka, Russia
Patty A. Gray
Chapter 2. Reindeer, Social Relations and Networks in a Post-Socialist Arctic Community: The Dolgan in Sakha
Aimar Ventsel
Chapter 3. Earmarks, Furmarks and the Community: Multiple Reindeer Property among West Siberian Pastoralists
Florian Stammler
Chapter 4. ‘Trust’ or ‘Domination’? Divergent Perceptions of Property in Animals among the Tozhu and the Tofa of South Siberia
Brian Donahoe
Chapter 5. Milk and Antlers: A System of Partitioned Rights and Multiple Holders of Reindeer in Northern China
Hugh Beach
PART II: THE EURASIAN STEPPE
Chapter 6. Pastoralism and Property Relations in Contemporary Kazakhstan
Anatoly M. Khazanov
Chapter 7. Property Rights in Livestock among Mongolian Pastoralists: Categories of Ownership and Categories of Control
Peter Finke
PART III: AFRICA
Chapter 8. Forms and Modalities of Property Rights in Cattle in a Fulbe Society (Western Burkina Faso)
Youssouf Diallo
Chapter 9. Individualization of Livestock Ownership in Fulbe Family Herds: The Effects of Pastoral Intensification and Islamic Renewal in Northern Cameroon
Mark Moritz
Chapter 10. From Cultural Property to Market Goods: Changes in the Economic Strategies and Herd Management Rationales of Agro-Pastoral Fulbe in North West Cameroon
Michaela Pelican
Chapter 11. Fulbe Pastoralists and the Changing Property Relations in Northern Ghana
Steve Tonah
Chapter 12. Multiple Rights in Animals: An East African Overview
Günther Schlee
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
