Domestic animals have lived with humans for thousands of years and remain essential to the everyday lives of people throughout the world. In this book, Natasha

"Natasha Fijn examines the process of animal domestication in an ethnographic account of herders and their herd animals in the mountains of Mongolia"--

Examines the process of animal domestication in an ethnographic account of herders and their animals in the mountains of Mongolia.

A look inside one of the world's last truly nomadic cultures--Mongolia's Nomads. For millennia, pastoral herders have lived on the Mongolian steppe, moving with