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Donkey trade: Challenges to sustaining mutualism in rural Pakistan

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: The Pakistani government's decision to export thousands of donkeys to China to manufacture Chinese traditional medicine ( ejiao ) threatens the interdependence between donkeys and their keepers. This article seeks to unravel the mutualism between humans and donkeys in rural South Punjab and examines how forces of globalism and capitalism commodify the equine through parasitic disregard.

Source: Anthropology Today

DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12786

Author: Muhammad A. Kavesh

Language: English

Topic: Geographies of human-animal interactions

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,140

OpenAlex ID: W4321020150

FWCI: 3.1

Cites: 6

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10