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Cattle and the cash economy: responses to change among Tibetan nomadic pastoralists in Sichuan, China
Human organization • 58 (2) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 161-172
By: Levine, Nancy E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study documents the changes among nomadic pastoralists in response to decollectivization policies of the Chinese government. The author examines herd management and changes in consumption and production in response to a market economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Pastoral activities
- Wool production
- Production and supply
- Internal trade
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tibetans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1994, 1997
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Serthar County, Sichuan Province, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nancy E. Levine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-172)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47033317
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tibet (China)--Ethnology