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Herders, Warriors, And Traders: Pastoralism In Africa de John G Galaty

Herders, Warriors, And Traders: Pastoralism In Africa

Autor John G Galaty
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 apr 2019
African pastoralists have been devastated by drought, famine and dislocation, yet herding remains the most viable system of support for the inhabitants of the vast arid and semi-arid zones. Using case studies of the Tswana and the San, the interlacustrine pastoralists, the Masai and Mursi of East Africa, and the multi-ethnic regional systems of La
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367015756
ISBN-10: 0367015757
Pagini: 366
Dimensiuni: 149 x 225 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Cattle and Culture: Domestic Animals as Value and Sign -- "How Beasts Lost Their Legs": Cattle in Tswana Economy and Society -- "To Increase Cows, God Created the King": The Function of Cattle in Intralacustrine Societies1 -- Exchange, Ecology and the "Common Economy" -- Political Ecology in the Upper Nile: The Twentieth Century Expansion of the Pastoral "Common Economy" -- Feasts, Famines and Friends: Nineteenth Century Exchange and Ethnicity in the Eastern Lake Turkana Region1 -- Warfare, Expansion and Pastoral Ethnicity -- Movement, Warfare and Ethnicity in the Lower Omo Valley -- Pastoral Orbits and Deadly Jousts: Factors in the Maasai Expansion -- Herders, Traders and Clerics: The Impact of Trade, Religion and Warfare on the Evolution of Moorish Society -- Hierarchy and Inequality in Regional Systems -- Herders, Hunters and Smiths: Mobile Populations in the History of Kanem -- Pastoro-Foragers to "Bushmen": Transformations in Kalahari Relations of Property, Production and Labor -- Conclusion -- The Current Realities of African Pastoralists

Descriere

Using case studies this volume demonstrates the significant impact that pastoralists have had throughout conflict and migration, and in providing a legitimate economic alternative to settled agriculture.