Who Owns the Stock?

Anatoly M. Khazanov is Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology  (Emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include Nomads and the Outside World (1st. ed. Cambridge University Press, 1984) and After the USSR:  Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Comonwealth of Independent States (University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).

• List of Maps, Figures and TablesIntroductionAnatoly M. Khazanov and Günther 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 OverviewGünther SchleeNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“…theoretical diversity around a common subject is the defining strength of the book. The wide range of intellectual interests, from Ingold’s sentient ecology to New Institutional Economics, makes the bibliography a goldmine for graduate students and others seeking to expand their theoretical horizons. The book is an important contribution to economic anthropology, pastoral studies, and legal pluralism. It belongs in every well-stocked institutional library and will doubtlessly be a reference for years to come.”  ·  The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law“…on the whole this volume offers a rich and insightful look into the lives of people whose notions of property can complicate overly simplistic assertions of the naturalness or inevitability of private property regimes that often serve the interests of the globally powerful. At the same time, it challenges perspectives that would deny the growing import and relevance of access to markets and to just allocation of property for individuals across cultures and places. In this regard, I wholeheartedly recommend it to both specialist and general readers with an interest in the politics, economics and ecologies of property, private and otherwise.”  ·  The Toronto Review of Books“This volume offers a rich and insightful look into the lives of people whose notions of property can complicate overly simplistic assertions of the naturalness or inevitability of private property regimes that often serve the interests of the globally powerful. At the same time, it challenges perspectives that would deny the growing import and relevance of access to markets and to just allocation of property for individuals across cultures and places. In this regard, I wholeheartedly recommend this book to both specialist and general readers with an interest in the politics, economics and ecologies of property, private and otherwise.”  ·  The Toronto Review of Books