Camels in Asia and North Africa
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives on their past and present significance
By: Eva-Maria Knoll and Pamela Burger (eds.).
Series: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Denkschriften -- 451. Band; Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie -- Band 18; Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 451. Bd.; Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie -- Bd. 18.
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9783700172444
Subjects: Camels
Description: "Humanity's history is closely linked to those of camels. Without these remarkable animals we could not have inhabited the arid zones of Asia and North Africa, nor could we cope with today's challenges of increasing desertification. Researching interactions between humans and camels therefore has been established at the Austrian Academy of Sciences ever since its foundation more than 160 years ago. The present publication is committed to this research tradition. This book assembles insights upon current historical interactions between humans and camels. Thereby it is international and interdisciplinary from the outset and aims at intensifying a camel-related knowledge exchange between the natural sciences and the humanities. The here presented discussions of Old World camels (dromedary, Bactrian, wild camel) include such diverse topics as camel domestication, breeding, raising and commerce. Moreover, camels' significance is also discussed regarding socio-cultural and economic factors, music, folk medicine and veterinary medicine, as well as saving the last remaining wild camels"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The camel at the crossroads of multiple perspectives : introduction to an interdisciplinary encounter / Eva-Maria Knoll (Vienna); title: Genetic traces of domestication in Old World camelids / Pamela Burger (Vienna); title: The encounter between Bactrian and Dromedary camels in Central Asia / Bernard Faye (Montpellier), Gaukhar Konuspayeva (Montpellier); title: Embryonic hump development and ancestry in old world camels / Clemens Knospe (Munich), Joerg Kinne (Dubai), Nissar A. Wani (Dubai), Ulrich Wernery (Dubai), Joris Peters (Munich); title: The conservation status and management of wild camels in Mongolia / Adiya Yadamsuren (Ulaanbaatar), Enkhbileg Dulamtseren (Ulaanbaatar), Richard P. Reading (Denver); title: The status of the wild camel in China / Yuan Li (Xinjiang), John Hare (Benenden), Yuan Guoying (Xinjiang), Cheng Yun (Xinjiang); title: Working in a freezer: capturing and collaring wild Bactrian camels / Chris Walzer (Vienna), Petra Kaezensky (Vienna), Enkhbileg Dulamtseren (Ulaanbaatar), Adiya Yadamsuren (Ulaanbaatar); title: Hybridization: a threat to the genetic distinctiveness of the last wild old world camel species / Katja Silbermayr (Vienna), Pamela Burger (Vienna); title: Ancient DNA reveals domestication process: the case of the two-humped camel / Alexandra Trinks (Mainz), Pamela Burger (Vienna), Norbert Benecke (Berline) Joachim Burger (Mainz); title: The tears of the camel : reflections on depictions and descriptions of the camel in Mongolian culture / Maria-Katharina Lang (Vienna); title: The camel and its symbolism in the daily life of the Mongols with particular reference to their folk songs / Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar (Vienna); title: Archeozoology of camels in South-Eastern Arabia / Margarethe Uerpmann (Tübingen); title: Riding camels in Arabia : outline of a revised cultural history / Walter Dostal (Vienna); title: Caravans from South Arabia : roads and organization / Johann Heiss (Vienna); title: Camels in star mythology and in everyday rural life : ethnographic observations in South-West Arabia's Tihāma lowlands / Andre Gingrich (Vienna); title: What camels eat : a study of Arabic ethnobotany / Daniel Martin Varisco (New York); title: The economic significance and traditional management of dromedaries in Syria / Darem Tabbaa (Hama); title: The socio-economic perspective of camels in Pakistan / Arshad Iqbal (Rawalpindi); title: Camel trekking in Jordan: between oriental perception and authentic tourist expectation / Mohammed Shunnaq (Irbid), Susanne Ramadan Shunnaq (Irbid); title: Camel urine and milk in the Arab heritage (folk medicine) : a review / Abdulsalam A. Bakhsh (Al-Ahsa), Wael M. El-Deeb (Al-Ahsa), Awatif A. Al-Judaibi (Jeddah); title: The Saharan dromedary as a sign : the prominence of dromedaries among the Nomadic Imuhar Society in the Algerian desert / Anja Fischer (Vienna); title: The traditional management of the one-humped camel in the Horn of Africa : milking, fostering and weaning techniques / Maurizio Dioli (Alicante); title: The informal camel milk marketing sector in Kenya and Somalia / Mario Younan (Nairobi), David M. Mwangi (Nairobi); title: Extending the shelf life of camel milk / Ibtisam E.M. El Zubeir (Khartoum); title: Bringing camels into focus : a photo-essay on dromedaries in the Nigeria-Niger corridor / Abdussamad M. Abdussamad (Göttingen/Nigeria), Demo Joab Usman Kalla (Aberdeen), Shehu Ahmad Maigandi (Sokoto)