About The Author(s)
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.
发表于2024-11-23
The End of Nomadism? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 游牧 Sociology 蒙古学 人类学 Anthropology InnerAsia 牧业 毕业论文
Description
Those who herd in the vast grassland region of Inner Asia face a precarious situation as they struggle to respond to the momentous political and economic changes of recent years. In The End of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath confront the romantic, ahistorical myth of the wandering nomad by revealing the complex lives and the significant impact on Asian culture of these modern “mobile pastoralists.” In their examination of the present and future of pastoralism, the authors recount the extensive and quite sudden social, political, environmental, and economic changes of recent years that have forced these peoples to respond and evolve in order to maintain their centuries-old way of life.
Using extensive and detailed case studies comparing pastoralism in Siberian Russia, Mongolia, and Northwest China, Humphrey and Sneath explore the different paths taken by nomads in these countries in reaction to a changing world. In examining how each culture is facing not only different prospects for sustainability but also different environmental problems, the authors come to the surprising conclusion that mobility can, in fact, be compatible with a modern and urbanized world. While placing emphasis on the social and cultural traditions of Inner Asia and their fate in the post-Socialist economies of the present, The End of Nomadism? investigates the changing nature of pastoralism by focusing on key areas under environmental threat and relating the ongoing problems to distinctive socioeconomic policies and practices in Russia and China. It also provides lively contemporary commentary on current economic dilemmas by revealing in telling detail, for instance, the struggle of one extended family to make a living.
最后一章才是最好看的!以故事的形式呈现前几章的内容,可惜太短了。没什么理论,方法比较好,有一些颠覆性的结论,但论证不细致。
评分国内很多学者的圣经,但是有明显的数据错误
评分国内很多学者的圣经,但是有明显的数据错误
评分草原退化和放牧体系的流动性丧失密切相关
评分最后一章才是最好看的!以故事的形式呈现前几章的内容,可惜太短了。没什么理论,方法比较好,有一些颠覆性的结论,但论证不细致。
The End of Nomadism? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书