Lists of Plates, Figures, Maps, Tables, and Online Video
Segments ...................................................... vii
Glossary ....................................................... xi
Acknowledgments .............................................. xvii
PART ONE: CROSSING BOUNDARIES
PROLOGUE: LIFE IN THE KHANGAI MOUNTAINS ...................... 3
1 INTRODUCTION ................................................ 17
Part I Redefining Domestication ............................ 18
Part II Inner Asian Nomads .................................. 28
2 A MONGOLIAN ETHO-ETHNOGRAPHY ................................ 36
PART TWO: THE SOCIAL HERD
3 SOCIAL SPHERES .............................................. 55
Part I The Social Landscape ................................ 56
Part II The Social Animal ................................... 64
4 NAMES, SYMBOLS, COLOURS, AND BREEDING ....................... 81
Part I Breeding ............................................ 82
Part II Nomenclature ........................................ 90
5 MULTISPECIES ENCULTURATION ................................. 104
6 TAMENESS AND CONTROL ....................................... 129
Part I Tameness ........................................... 130
Part II Control ............................................ 140
PART THREE: LIVING WITH HERDS
7 IN THE LAND OF THE HORSE ................................... 151
Part I The Horse in Mongolia's Past ....................... 153
Part II The Naadam ......................................... 160
8 THE CYCLE OF LIFE: BIRTH TO DEATH, SPRING TO WINTER ........ 175
9 THE DOMESTIC AND THE WILD .................................. 201
10 THE SACRED ANIMAL .......................................... 221
CONCLUSION: CO-DOMESTIC LIVES ................................. 241
Appendix ...................................................... 247
References .................................................... 251
Index ......................................................... 271
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