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The herding household: economy and organization
Mongolia in transition • (22) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 65-89
By: Bruun, Ole.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this chapter from the book 'Mongolia in Transition,' Bruun examines herding households' transition to a market economy. One-third of Mongolia's population are herders. With the economic crisis of the 1990s a substantial number of the urban population returned to a herding way of life and a pre-modern means of subsistence, in spite of diminished social services and deteriorating communications and infrastructure in rural areas. With decollectivization, herders have had to rely more on individual household labor and skills, which has led to a growing income disparity among households. Bruun looks at household division of labor and the small household labor-sharing group, the AIL, which has survived. He also notes that few spontaneous organizations have emerged to replace the larger cooperative groups. Bruun discusses household budgets in the second part of the chapter, as well as, markets, corporate organizations, the communication system, and social services.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Annual cycle
- Pastoral activities
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Division of labor by gender
- Standard of living
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mongolia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1987-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mongolia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ole Bruun
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97101609
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongolia