The Keeping of animals
Subtitle: adaptation and social relations in livestock producing communities
By: edited by Riva Berleant-Schiller and Eugenia Shanklin.
Contributors: Berleant-Schiller, Riva, 1935-; Shanklin, Eugenia, 1939-2007
Publisher: Allanheld, Osmun
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Sociology, Rural; Shepherds; Peasantry; Herders; Ranchers; Livestock -- Social aspects
First sentence: "Humans and animals have been together for a long time."
Description: This volume is an edited collection of  ten original papers by anthropologists and geographers writing about small-scale livestock production in Africa, eastern Europe, Iceland, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction--Eugenia Shanklin and Riva Berleant-Schiller.   2. Understanding East African Pastoralism: An Ecosystems Approach--Rada Dyson-Hudson.  3. Peasant Herding Associations in Hungary and Romania--Lajos Vincze.  4. The Changing Form of Herding Organization in Rural Iceland--Ann Pinson.  5. Grazing and Gardens in Barbuda--Riva Berleant-Schiller.  6. Family Herds, Individual Owners: Livestock Ritual and Inheritance among the Aymara of Bolivia--Terry L. West.  7. Minifundista Pastoralists in Patagonia--John F. Bergmann.  8. Livestock Raising and Family Farming: The Case of Southern Brazil--Patricia Kluck.  9. Paradise Lost--or Sustained? Consequences of Market Maximization--M. Estellie Smith.  10. The Past as Future: Small Rancher Conservatism in San Miguel County, New Mexico--Thomas Maloney..