Pastoral practices in High Asia Agency of 'development' effected by modernisation, resettlement and transformation /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kreutzmann, Hermann (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Physical geography.; Agriculture.; Environmental management.; Earth Sciences.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Management.

In conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• From the Content: Pastoralism in High Asia
• Introduction
• Variegated pastoral practices in the Pamirian knot
• Pastoral practices on the move – Recent transformations in mountain pastoralism on the Tibetan Plateau
• Case studies from Hindukush, Karakoram, Pamir and Tien Shan
• Pastoralism, power and politics: access to pastures under conditions of tenure insecurity in Northern Afghanistan
• Economic Strategies and Market Orientation of the Afghan Kyrgyz
• Herding on high grounds. Diversity and typology of pastoral systems in the Eastern Hindu Kush (Chitral, Pakistan)
• Tobias Kraudzun: Pastoralism and Livelihoods of the 'New Livestock Breeders' in the East-ern Pamirs of Tajikistan.