Good to eat , good to live with
Subtitle: nomads and animals in northern Eurasia and Africa
By: edited by Florian Stammler, Hiroki Takakura
Contributors: Tōhoku Daigaku. Tōhoku Ajia Kenkyū Sentā; Arktinen keskus (Rovaniemi, Finland)
Series: Northeast Asian study series -- 11; Northeast Asian study series -- 11.
Publisher: Center for Northeast Asian studies, Tohoku University
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sendai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9784901449670
Subjects: Human-animal relationships; Nomads; Herders; Pastoral systems
Notes: Outgrowth of a seminar entitled The social significance of animals in nomadic pastoral societies of the Arctic, Asia, and Africa, organized by the Center for Northeast Asian Studies (CNEAS), Tohoku University, and the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, held May 15-18, 2009, in Sendai, Japan. Cf. pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Living with animals as the socially significant other in pastoralism / Florian Stammler and Hiroki Takakura; title: Arctic pastoralism in a subsistence continuum : a strategy for differentiating familiarity with animals / Hiroki Takakura; title: Knowing, training, learning : the importance of reindeer character and temperament for individuals and communities of humans and animals / Terhi Vuojala-Magga; title: Metaphorical projection and integrated cognitive systems : the Samburu in north central Kenya / Shinya Konaka; title: Establishment of large scale reindeer herding in the European and West Siberian tundra / Shiro Sasaki; title: More than meat on the hoof? : social significance of reindeer among Finnish Saami in a rationalised pastoralist economy / Nuccio Mazzullo; title: Between cattle and islam : shifting social and gendered significance of cattle among the Mbororo pastoralists in Cameroon / Tea Virtanen; title: Fluctuations in the value of horses in Mongolia before and after socialism / Tomoko Nakamura; title: 'Political' animals of Sakha Yakutia / Ann Stammler-Grossman; title: The interrelationship of sociodiversity and biodiversity : experiences from a post-Soviet Siberian village / Leo Granberg; title: The origin and genetic diversity of native Yakutian cattle as revealed by DNA-marker analysis / Juha Kantanen; title: The symbiotic human animal relationship : an artistic investigation of Yakutian cattle / Anu Osva; title: Animal-diversity and its social significance among Arctic pastoralists / Florian Stammler.