All welcome to the next Research in Progess seminar at the Royal
Anthropological Institute. Free tea, coffee, wine and biscuits.
Friday 4 November, 4.00 pm
Animal Economics: exchange and personhood in pastoral Mongolia
Joseph Briestly, UCL
This event is free, but booking advised. To book tickets please go to:
http://josephbristley.eventbrite.co.uk
In pastoral Mongolia a strongly held ideology of abundance accentuates the
importance of owning lots of animals, something that amplifies a wider
sense of plenty running through a number of registers in Mongolian social
life. Whilst valued, however, this ideology is also shadowed by a number of
‘undersides’ (Ferme 2001) – haunted by the possibility of its own failure,
owing to a range of factors including the possibility of natural disasters,
overgrazing, and general lack of state support.
Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a rural district in central Mongolia, I
explore the political and economic significance of the unfolding tensions
between an idealised view of productivity and its underside as they are
played out in everyday life. In contrast to scholarship primarily focusing
on human-animal relations (Fijn 2011), I explore how these relations are
produced by specific economic contexts, some of which exist ‘beyond the
human’ (Kohn 2013). In doing so, I shed light on the formation of a
precarious sense of value rooted in the possession of livestock; and how
this is conducive to the production of certain kinds of people.
*Location : *Royal Anthropological Institute
50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT
United Kingdom
http://www.therai.org.uk
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