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Precious Steppe - Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market (Hardcover)
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Precious Steppe - Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market (Hardcover)
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Ole Bruun focuses on a community of nomadic livestock herders in
present-day Mongolia. He depicts their transition from a contained,
Soviet-era collective to modern times and addresses the most
essential conditions for their continued survival and prosperity in
the age of the market: the adaptability of their own culture and
working strategies, government policy, and international attention.
By studying the nomadic practice of animal husbandry in the context
of family farms, Bruun points out the similarity to the peasant
economy defined by the Russian agricultural economist Alexander
Chayanov nearly a century ago. In both economies, the
labor-consumer balance and life-cycle variations commonly set the
term for economic strategies, yet the pastoral economy involves a
highly specialized form of agriculture in which the scale of
exchange determines wealth and lifestyle. In a vast territory such
as Mongolia, infrastructure, social benefits, and other means of
state support are crucial to prevent herders from sliding into a
subsistence orientation, eventually leading to poverty.
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