By Robert B. Ekvall
ISBN-10: 0881330523
ISBN-13: 9780881330526
Ekvall does a great activity of creating the cultural traditions of a highland tradition come alive in his survey of a society of nomadic pastoralists, aBrog Pa, in northeast ethnic Tibet, the place ecology dominates their life and prescribes their demeanour of residing. Fields at the Hoof is a examine of the complicated interdependency of many components: the impression of the high-altitude surroundings and its assets; the effect of Buddhism because it counters the survival of people trust; the social method, tradition, and character the aBrog Pa percentage with different pastoral nomads; the difference of guy to animal and animal to guy.
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Butchering and the handling and use of weapons are good examples of exclusively male roles; milking and churning are good examples of exclusively female roles; but other activities such as tethering stock and packing and unpacking in a move appear to be equally men's and women's work, according to need. scope or manner of performance. The pattern of action for the individual which thus results is obviously a reflection of generally accepted and observed norms. As in every society, there are atypical or abnormal patterns which arise by accident from emergency requirements or because of individual nonconformism.
If they choose to wander off by themselves, no effort is made to control them, but the community does seek to protect them from harm or outside interference and, thus, communally acts as guardian of these livestock of the gods. The offering is a gesture of piety by the community, and of self-interest in anticipation of blessing. Yet it seems also to be an unwitting making of amends, and an acknowledgment that domestication of the very livestock on which pastoralism depends, and which, by their mobility, make that society nomadic, is an infringement of natural rights as first willed by the gods.
After the hay is stored, the workers rejoin their home communities. ) to the shelter of lower levels and windbreak topography. What remains of following the grass in order to fatten stock is the last phase, which is to conserve accumulated ftesh by as much protection against cold and as little movement as is feasible. Pasturing 36 • CARE OF LIVESTOCK is reduced to turning the stock loose late in the cold morning, after the sun has freed winter-killed grass of frost, to stand or move like zombies, satisfying hunger, with little relish, on dried-out yellow stalks.
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