Pastorealismes

English summary: The book examines the relations between an economic phenomenon, pastoralism, and a social one, patrilineal descent-reckoning. These relations are described and analyzed on the basis of long-term fieldwork and through the investigation of the existing historical and ethnographic sources. By developing a historical anthropological approach, the book offers a new perspective on pastoralism in a region that has remained largely unexplored up to now. It is of interest for...
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English summary: The book examines the relations between an economic phenomenon, pastoralism, and a social one, patrilineal descent-reckoning. These relations are described and analyzed on the basis of long-term fieldwork and through the investigation of the existing historical and ethnographic sources. By developing a historical anthropological approach, the book offers a new perspective on pastoralism in a region that has remained largely unexplored up to now. It is of interest for specialists of Central Asia as a cultural area, for anthropologists and historians as well as for all those who are willing to initiate themselves in the past and present of Kyrgyzstan. French description: C'est un ouvrage sur les relations entre un phenomene economique - le pastoralisme et un phenomene social - les groupes de descendance patrilineaire - chez les Kirghiz du Tian Shan interieur. Ces relations sont analysees a partir des enquetes extensives de terrain et en explorant les sources historiques et ethnographiques existantes. En developpant une approche d'anthropologie historique, l'ouvrage offre une nouvelle perspective sur le pastoralisme dans une region peu etudiee jusque maintenant. Il represente de l'interet a la fois pour les specialistes de l'Asie centrale comme aire culturelle, pour les anthropologues et les historiens ainsi que pour tous ceux qui souhaitent s'initier au passe et au present du Kirghizstan.