Animals as Capital
Comparisons among Northern Nomadic Herders and Hunters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2581832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Treat Paine (0000-0002-8904-8398, corresponding author), Robert Paine (0000-0002-4511-4437) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 157 |
| Publication date | 1971-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3316936 |
| OpenAlex | W2326793406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 1 |
the tendency in ethnography to compare the hunter and herder with the sedentary agriculturalist, the essay attempts to compare them witth each other as variations of a nomadic adaptation based on animals. Domestic herds of reindeer and wild herds of caribou and moose are evaluated as capital resources of northern herders and hunters; expertise in the handling of these resources and the rewards arising from the expertise are also evaluated. Hunters have been characterized recently as the original affluents; what, then, would be the commensurable characterization of nomadic pastoralists
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 1974 - 2024 (51) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |