Cooperative Pastoral Production: Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Pastoral Labor and Production

American Anthropologist

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-321

  Næss, Marius Warg ^a,b,c  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Labor; Modeling; Nomadic pastoralism; Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862262639     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01427.x     Document Type: Article

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