By Tim Ingold

In the course of the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have established their livelihood entirely or partially upon the exploitation of a unmarried animal species-the reindeer. but a few are hunters, others pastoralists, whereas this present day conventional pastoral economies are being changed by way of a commercially orientated ranch undefined. during this ebook, drawing on ethnographic fabric from North the United States and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the factors and mechanisms of variations among looking, pastoralism and ranching, each one in line with a similar animal within the related setting, and every seen when it comes to a selected conjunction of social and ecological family of creation. In constructing a conceivable synthesis among ecological and financial ways in anthropology, Ingold introduces theoretically rigorous ideas for the research of specialised animal-based economies, which solid the matter of 'domestication' in a wholly new mild.