TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldstein, Melvyn C.
AU  - Beall, Cynthia M.
PY  - 1994
DA  - 1994//
TI  - The changing world of Mongolia's nomads
PB  - University of California Press
CY  - Berkeley
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - Topography and geology
KW  - Annual cycle
KW  - Pastoral activities
KW  - Normal garb
KW  - Production and supply
KW  - External trade
KW  - Corporate organization
KW  - Cooperative organization
KW  - Animal transport
KW  - Household
AB  - The researchers spent three summers among Mongolian herders living in the Altai Mountains. Their text, supplemented with many photographs, conveys some of the feel of contemporary nomadic pastoral way of life. The authors also discuss the effects of decollectivization/privatization reforms. The response of herders was not to dissolve the communal ownership of the collectives (NEGDEL) entirely, but to incorporate themselves as a joint shareholding corporation, thus preserving some form of  collective responsibility, albeit with households maintaining some private stock on the side. The herders also formed their own trading company to find and open markets in cities and across the borders in Russia and China.
SN  - 0520085515
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=ah01-017
LA  - English
N1  - photography and text by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall
ID  - ah01-017
Y1  - 2022-06-28
ER  -