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Auteur(s) : Goulder, Jill
Titre(s) : Working donkeys in 4th-3rd millennium BC Mesopotamia [Texte imprimé] : insights from modern development studies / Jill Goulder
Publication : Abingdon (GB) : Routledge, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-184 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : UCL institute of archaeology publications
Lien à la collection : UCL Institute of archaeology publications
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [164]-181. Index
"Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development
Studies is a reassessment of the role and impact of working-animal adoption in antiquity,
focusing on 4th-3rd millennium BC Mesopotamia but applicable to other periods and
regions. This book is driven by a novel interdisciplinary process of analogy with
modern use of working donkeys and cattle, in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. The
author uses close qualitative analysis of nearly 400 published official and NGO development
studies of the complex practicalities of adoption of working animals in developing
regions worldwide, in particular of the invisible and under-appreciated donkey. This
material, little-used as yet in Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, sheds light on the
day-to-day practicalities of working-animal adoption and management - breeding, training,
husbandry, hiring and lending. While archaeology will always have need of large-scale
anthropological models, the author argues for a parallel bottom-up ethological approach,
envisaging the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in Mesopotamia from a viewpoint explicitly
acknowledging the major presence of working animals and their daily impact on human
activity and the consequent archaeological record. This innovatory investigation of
the role and impact of the donkey in the Ancient Near East and today is an essential
handbook for Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and zooarchaeology researchers and students,
as well as historians, anthropologists and ethnographers examining the impact of working
animals on past and present societies. Wider audiences include the growing sector
of human-animal relationship studies, and NGOs concerned with the use of working donkeys
worldwide"
Sujet(s) : Âne -- Mésopotamie -- 4e millénaire av. J.-C.
Âne -- Mésopotamie -- 3e millénaire av. J.-C.
Animaux de travail -- Mésopotamie -- 4e millénaire av. J.-C.
Animaux de travail -- Mésopotamie -- 3e millénaire av. J.-C.
Relations homme-animal -- Mésopotamie -- 4e millénaire av. J.-C.
Relations homme-animal -- Mésopotamie -- 3e millénaire av. J.-C.
Indice(s) Dewey :
636.182 0935 (23e éd.) = Ânes - Monde antique - Mésopotamie et plateau iranien
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367422042 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47107563k
Notice n° :
FRBNF47107563
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