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Berghahn Books Who Owns the Stock? Collective and Multiple Property Rights in Animals 2012 Edition by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Gunther Schlee
The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study. Focusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasian steppes, this volume addresses the issue of property rights and the changes these societies have undergone due to the direct or indirect influence of modernization and globalization processes. The contributors also investigate the interplay of older sets of rights and modern marketing policies; political, ecological and economic effects of collectivization and de-collectivization; the existence of collective and private property in the Soviet Union and its successor states; state taxation and destocking measures in African dry lands; and the effects of quarantine, as well as import and export regulations. The rich and well-researched ethnographic, historical, and economic data in these chapters provides new theoretical insights into the matter of property rights in animals. Table of contents :- List of Maps, Figures and TablesIntroductionAnatoly M. Khazanov and Gunther SchleePART I: TUNDRA AND TAIGAChapter 1. 'I should have some deer, but I don't remember how many': Confused Ownership of Reindeer in Chukotka, RussiaPatty A. GrayChapter 2. Reindeer, Social Relations and Networks in a Post-Socialist Arctic Community: The Dolgan in SakhaAimar VentselChapter 3. Earmarks, Furmarks and the Community: Multiple Reindeer Property among West Siberian PastoralistsFlorian StammlerChapter 4. 'Trust' or 'Domination'? Divergent Perceptions of Property in Animals among the Tozhu and the Tofa of South SiberiaBrian DonahoeChapter 5. Milk and Antlers: A System of Partitioned Rights and Multiple Holders of Reindeer in Northern ChinaHugh BeachPART II: THE EURASIAN STEPPEChapter 6. Pastoralism and Property Relations in Contemporary KazakhstanAnatoly M. KhazanovChapter 7. Property Rights in Livestock among Mongolian Pastoralists: Categories of Ownership and Categories of ControlPeter FinkePART III: AFRICAChapter 8. Forms and Modalities of Property Rights in Cattle in a Fulbe Society (Western Burkina Faso)Youssouf DialloChapter 9. Individualization of Livestock Ownership in Fulbe Family Herds: The Effects of Pastoral Intensification and Islamic Renewal in Northern CameroonMark MoritzChapter 10. From Cultural Property to Market Goods: Changes in the Economic Strategies and Herd Management Rationales of Agro-Pastoral Fulbe in North West CameroonMichaela PelicanChapter 11. Fulbe Pastoralists and the Changing Property Relations in Northern GhanaSteve TonahChapter 12. Multiple Rights in Animals: An East African OverviewGunther SchleeNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex